HOOK SPOOKED

EXCLUSIVE MI5 are spying on me in my cell, rants jailed cleric They're planning to recruit inmate to assassinate me It will look like an accident..they just want me dead .

By Justin Penrose Crime Correspondent '

JAILED Muslim extremist Abu Hamza is convinced MI5 will kill him in prison. Hook-handed Hamza believes intelligence chiefs want him out of the way and will recruit another inmate to make sure an "accident" happens to him.
Prison sources say Hamza is becoming increasingly paranoid, claiming his cell at Belmarsh High-Security jail in South-East London has been bugged and that MI5 have recruited spies to keep a watch on him.
And he is often heard ranting and raving to himself in his cell since he was jailed for seven years last month for urging his fanatical followers to carry out murders on behalf of Islam.
A prison source said: "He has become increasingly paranoid since he was sentenced at the Old Bailey.
"He thinks the whole world is out to get him and is convinced that he is going to be murdered in jail.
"He keeps on complaining that his cell has been bugged and that he is being spied on.


"Of course, it's all in Hamza's mind, but he is becoming more and more irrational."
Yet the old arrogance of Hamza, the former imam of North London's notorious Finsbury Park Mosque, often comes to the surface.
When a fellow prisoner asked Hamza if his family liked sponging off the State by living on benefits he threatened to put a fatwa (death sentence) on his head and called him "British scum".
While Hamza is serving his sentence his wife Nagat and their eight children still live in a £550,000 house provided by the council in Shepherd's Bush, West London, and collect £680 a week in benefits.
"Hamza has been extremely volatile lately," the Belmarsh source said. "He keeps preaching about World War III and how this time it will be between the West and Muslims.
"He says that Muslims will wipe out Christians and Jews alike."
Hamza, 47, is also refusing to work at the top-security jail, claiming that cooking, cleaning and laundry are "peasant jobs".
If he continues to refuse to do the work he is given, he could be charged with a discipline offence and be punished by a loss of privileges.
Hamza has also insisted that he should be allowed to wear his own robes and not a prison uniform.
And he does not want non-Muslims touching his food or laundry.
He has also asked prison chiefs if he can form his own Muslim prayer group.
The source added: "Some of Hamza's demands are utterly ridiculous. He's got this idea in his head that he is some big fish. It's as if he thinks he's some kind of celebrity prisoner who can get what he wants."
Hamza was found guilty of 11 of the 15 charges against him at the Old Bailey, where the jury heard of his links with global terrorism.
An arsenal of weapons and terrorist material was found in a raid on the Finsbury Park mosque. It is believed to have been used in terrorist training camps in Britain.
One terrorist manual uncovered by the police advocated bombing Western landmarks such as Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
Sentencing Hamza, Mr Justice Hughes said his words created a "real danger" for people around the world.
Hamza now faces extradition to the US on a string of terror charges although he still declares himself a "prisoner of faith" and a martyr.
justin.penrose@sundaymirror.co.uk