Profession criminal Tito ibn Sheikh appeared within the dock at Southwark Crown Court docket this week.
However his crime - plotting to launder tons of of 1000's of kilos of stolen cash for which he was sentenced to just about 4 years - was maybe much less surprising than his infamous household background.
He was born Hamza Mustafa Kamel earlier than altering his title to Tito ibn Sheikh, which roughly translated means 'son of a venerable man' in Arabic.
This might not be a much less acceptable title within the circumstances.
His father - the so-called 'venerable man' - is Abu Hamza, the notorious 'hook-handed' cleric of Finsbury Park mosque who's now serving life with out the potential for parole within the U.S. for terror offences there and within the UK.
Tito ibn Sheikh, as he's now, is considered one of Abu Hamza's six sons.
4 of them have felony convictions for offences together with terrorism, armed theft, drug dealing, fraud and housebreaking, and the remaining two have a observe document of Islamic extremism.
Each considered one of them, in different phrases, has been a blight on this nation.
Between them - and a seventh stepbrother - they've collectively chalked up 40 years in British jails and, together with Abu Hamza, have value the British taxpayer tens of millions in authorized support, advantages, healthcare and jail stays.
Might there be a extra poisonous household anyplace within the nation, or anybody who has exploited the system extra ruthlessly than the Hamzas?
That is the true scandal behind the newest conviction of 35-year-old Tito ibn Sheikh.
The cash laundering scheme concerned opening financial institution accounts with false identities - with the assistance of a corrupt HSBC official - to 'wash' £342,000 of 'soiled cash' made by means of thefts and fraud.
On the time, Tito ibn Sheikh was on licence following his launch from a 12-year jail time period for main a gang who kidnapped a person and tortured him over a £15,000 debt virtually a decade in the past.
The sufferer was knifed, battered with a metallic bar and picket cosh and practically strangled to demise.
'His neck was squeezed so exhausting he thought his tongue would come out,' is how the prosecution described a very brutal side of his three-day ordeal.
Tito ibn Sheikh was additionally jailed for two-and-a-half years in 2009 for being a part of a gang which stole 32 luxurious automobiles value greater than £1 million.
He wore his hair in a ponytail and was wearing a inexperienced jail tracksuit when he appeared in court docket once more this week.
His barrister mentioned that his shopper had modified his title to distance himself from his father.
'His father has a level of notoriety which has induced him substantial issue and he and different members of his household have modified their names in consequence,' the barrister defined in mitigation.
In truth, the case epitomises the 'unhealthy' gene that runs by means of the Hamza boys.
It was in 1979 that Abu Hamza arrived in Britain from Egypt. He was given indefinite depart to remain after marrying a British girl.
Few might have presumably imagined the mark he and his as but unborn sons would go away on the UK.
Hamza had one son together with his first spouse, Valerie Traverso, and 5 together with his second, Najat Mostafa.
Najat nonetheless lives in a Victorian terrace that sits on a quiet gentrified road in Shepherd's Bush, West London, the place the Hamzas have been for the reason that mid-Nineties.
The bay-fronted property, painted magnolia, with safety cameras, both aspect of the entrance door, pointing at guests, is owned by Hammersmith and Fulham council.
The household of Hamza, who was sentenced to seven years for inciting race hate and homicide in 2006 and extradited to the U.S. on terrorism prices in 2012, obtained state handouts, together with housing and little one profit, which totalled greater than £33,000 a 12 months at one level.
When, shortly afterwards, matriarch Najat was believed to be residing there with solely two of the couple's brood, the native authority requested her to maneuver to a 'extra acceptable' smaller residence.
She was entitled to refuse their request, nonetheless, and the council was powerless to evict her as there was no time restrict on the tenancy settlement.
Over time, the property has undergone in depth renovation on the public's expense.
The Taxpayers' Alliance calculated that by the point Abu Hamza was imprisoned within the U.S. he and his brood had value Britain £2.75 million in welfare funds, council housing, and authorized prices.
That determine has now greater than tripled.
The Henry Jackson counter-extremist think-tank has estimated that, when the felony information of his sons have been factored in, the invoice this household has inflicted on the British taxpayer could have risen to not less than £10 million.
'The general public count on that their taxes go to supply companies that profit all of us,' mentioned assume tank director of communications Sam Armstrong.
'As an alternative, all too typically it's drained by the likes of the Hamzas who hate and hurt this nation and exploit each loophole to take what they will.
'Along with the eye-watering sums the Hamza household has value the general public purse, there are different prices which can be much less quantifiable, such because the corrosive impression on the neighborhood.
'Abu Hamza's crimes had been damaging sufficient, however by means of his sons he has spawned a brand new technology of lawlessness.'
Might there be a extra egregious catalogue of crimes?
Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 40 - Hamza's eldest and solely son by first spouse Valerie Traverso - was 17 when he was accused of masterminding a bombing marketing campaign to sabotage vacationer and financial websites in Yemen in August 1999.
Rocket-propelled grenades, explosives, anti-tank rockets, mines and communication gear had been discovered belonging to the armed gang. Claims they had been tortured into confessing had been dismissed by a court docket.
Mostafa spent three years in jail within the Arab state earlier than returning to London in 2002.
He bought a job on the Underground however was fired after colleagues found his id.
Later, he launched a profession in rap, with lyrics about waging holy warfare and carrying weapons. 'I used to be born to a soldier,' one his verses went, 'Kalashnikov in my shoulder, peace to Hamas and Hezbollah.'
It wasn't lengthy, nonetheless, earlier than he was again behind bars. In 2009, he was a part of a gang that focused luxurious automobiles. They obtained the log books and keys of automobiles left in long-stay automotive parks, akin to BMWs, Vary Rovers and Mercedes, through the use of a loophole within the DVLA system to divert registration particulars. The automobiles had been then bought on the Continent.
Mostafa was jailed for 2 years for his half within the rip-off, alongside together with his brother Tito ibn Sheikh (then nonetheless referred to as Hamza Mustafa Kamel) who's now inside for cash laundering, and stepbrother Mohssin Ghailam (4 years).
Drug Vendor
Yasser Kamel, 31, is serving 4 years after police raided his flat in Park Royal, West London, in 2019, and located 'high-quality' cocaine, MDMA, ecstasy and ketamine with a road worth of £30,000.
Among the many tell-tale paraphernalia of his 'commerce' had been two electrical scales and an encrypted cellphone.
'The medicine had been excessive purity and the circumstances present you have got shut hyperlinks to the supply and the expectation of considerable monetary acquire,' the decide advised him after he admitted possession with intent to provide class A and B medicine.
Kamel blamed his father's arrest and extradition, when he was round 14, for his personal lifetime of crime. He has a conviction for housebreaking and spent 12 months in youth detention for attacking police throughout an illustration outdoors the Israeli embassy.
He turned to drug dealing, he mentioned, as a result of he 'ran out of cash to pay hire'.
Armed Robber
Imran Mostafa Kamel, 29, was a part of a gang that raided a jeweller's retailer in King's Lynn, Norfolk.
They escaped with gems value £70,000 after brandishing a handgun and smashing show cupboards with a sledgehammer in what was described as a 'refined and well-planned' daylight heist.
A 'smoke-producing gadget' was set off in an try and disguise these concerned. The violent intrusion in 2012 was captured on CCTV.
'For many who had the misfortune to be working within the premises it will need to have been a fully terrifying expertise,' mentioned the decide, who jailed Mostafa for 11 years.
Mostafa had denied theft and possessing a firearm with the intent to commit an offence.
Two years in the past, he was charged with two gun offences after a melee outdoors a celebration in London's Park Lane through which a bouncer was stabbed to demise. The fees had been later dropped.
He's nonetheless listed on the electoral roll as residing on the household house in Shepherd's Bush.
Sufyan Mustafa, 27, was stripped of his British citizenship three years in the past.
Former pc sciences scholar Mustafa had travelled to Syria in 2013 when he was 19. He claimed he was combating with rebels towards the Assad regime. However when he tried to return to the UK in 2018, his title flagged up on a terrorist watchlist and he was stopped from boarding a flight to the UK from Turkey.
By way of his mom, Najat, he additionally had Moroccan nationality however he mentioned he didn't want to go there.
His case has echoes of Isis bride Shamima Begum who additionally needs to return to Britain.
Mustafa has tried to distance himself from his father.
'Britain is the place the place I used to be born and lived,' he mentioned in an interview in 2017.
'I've by no means been a risk to nationwide safety in Britain and won't commit aggression on its inhabitants as a result of our faith doesn't enable assaults on innocents.
'Abu Hamza is my father and he has his personal opinions and I've mine. Revoking my citizenship simply because I'm associated to Abu Hamza will not be allowed and can by no means enter the world of truthful trial.'
Hate Preacher
Othman Mustafa Kamal, 33, adopted in his father's footsteps and have become an imam.
He was captured on video again in 2012 calling for holy warfare and backed a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist who tried to homicide U.S. FBI brokers in Afghanistan.
In considered one of his filmed 'sermons' Kamal, who was preaching on the An-Noor mosque in Acton, West London, recites the Koran to worshippers earlier than graphic photos fill the display together with a person holding the top of a decapitated enemy soldier.
Throughout one other clip, he prays for Aafia Siddiqui, dubbed 'Woman Al Qaeda', the feminine Pakistani neuroscientist who was jailed for 86 years in New York in 2010 for the tried homicide of U.S. troopers who had been interrogating her in Afghanistan.
A mosque spokesman on the time admitted his movies may very well be utilized by London-based extremists to foment hatred within the capital and may by no means have been uploaded.
Kamal is now not linked to the mosque which got here underneath new administration in 2015.
Extra not too long ago, he was the director of an organization referred to as Burlington Ltd which rented and leased automobiles. The corporate, which was registered on the household house in Shepherd's Bush the place Kamal continues to be listed on the electoral roll, has been dissolved.
So six sons - plus one stepson - who're all both convicted criminals or linked to extremism have left a invoice for the taxpayer working into tens of millions.
What a legacy Abu Hamza has left behind as he languishes in a U.S. jail.
Extra reporting: Tim Stewart and Nic North.
