Hook and a hooker. (Hat tip: Beautiful Atrocities.)

HOOK-handed cleric Abu Hamza cheated on his first wife with a HOOKER, The Sun can reveal.

And it was the fall-out from his fling that transformed terrorist “recruiting sergeant” Hamza — jailed for seven years yesterday — into a religious fanatic.

Jurors at his Old Bailey trial heard the menacing Muslim preacher declare: “Every brothel is a target, everybody who endorses them is a target.”

At the time of his affair Hamza, now 47, was in his 20s, wed to Briton Valerie Fleming and working as a bouncer at a sleazy club.

His guilty secret was revealed by a Sun investigation. And Valerie, 51, said: “I can confirm that one of the reasons our marriage broke up was my husband’s infidelity with a prostitute.”