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Abu Hamza’s son convicted after found guilty of stealing £70,000 gems (31 August 2012)

Date: 31/08/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Abu Hamza’s son convicted after found guilty of stealing £70,000 gems

Imran Mostafa, 20, son of Abu Hamza the Muslim cleric was convicted along with two other men who raided jewellers in Kings Lynn, Norfolk armed with a firearm and a hammer as shop staff hid behind counters.

The civil engineering student had denied his part in the £70,000 robbery on January 31 and possessing a firearm with intent to commit an offence which he was officially charged with but the jury at Norwich Crown Court convicted him of both charges.

The jury heard that three hooded men burst into the shop and used a hammer to break display cabinets while another man stayed in a waiting van.

Prosecutor Ian James said the members of staff cowered behind counters as the men burst in, one with a firearm and another with a hammer, which was used to break the display cabinets before leaving with what they could.

One of the robbers ignited some sort of smoke bomb causing confusion and stock was taken as loads of glass fragments went everywhere because of the way the robbery was conducted.

Mr James only revealed that Mostafa was Hamza’s son, after the Recorder of Norwich; Judge Peter Jacobs lifted contempt of court order.

Hamza is considered a dangerous terror suspect who is currently appealing to European judges over his extradition from the UK to America after being accused of conspiring to take Western hostages in the Yemen, funding terrorism and running a terrorist training camp in Oregon between 1998 and 2000.
In the jewellery robbery, Mostafa and Ossama Hamed, 19 of Fulham, London, Ahmed Ahmed, 19, of Enfield and Jonathon Abdul, 17, also of Fulham, dumped the van nearby the shop before returning to London. They also stopped in Gayton to dump jewellery casings.
At the time of the robbery Mostafa claimed before the jury that he was teaching Arabic and the Koran at a community centre in London.
He said that he was neither a thief nor an armed robber. He was on a gap year from university and said.
Abdul, who was 16 at the time of the robbery, denied the offences but was also convicted by the jury.
He said he was subject to a bail curfew at the time and had to return to London by 10pm that day.
The judge lifted previous reporting restrictions on the youth, allowing the publication of his name of someone under 18 in ‘these exceptional circumstances’.
The judge asked for full pre-sentence reports to be prepared.
Hamza who has seven children had in the past had seen his relatives arrested for various offences. Sons Hamza Mustafa Kamel, Mohamed Kamel Mostafa and Mohssin Ghailan were jailed in 2009 for their part in a £1million luxury car scam.

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