http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/209859



HATE preacher Abu Hamza was given the right to call himself British yesterday after a court stopped the Government taking his passport away.

The panel decided that to withdraw his British nationality would be illegal because it would render him “stateless”. hang on ere who makes the laws the courts or Parliament ? change the law so its not illegal.

Yesterday’s judgment is Hamza’s latest victory in a long series of legal battles funded by the taxpayer through legal aid.

He is believed to have cost taxpayers more than Ł3million in legal bills, prison costs and state benefits for himself, his wife and eight children.

He is also fighting extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for alleged terror offences. That case was delayed by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg while further evidence was produced about how he would be treated there.

He was jailed for seven years in February 2006 for inciting murder and race hate and is currently in Belmarsh high-security prison in south-east London.