Abu Hamza’s Muslim lawyer earns 1m a year in legal aid from representing terror suspects
A solicitor who specialises in representing terror suspects and tells them not to cooperate with police was paid almost 1 million in legal aid last year.
Muddassar Arani’s firm represented Abu Hamza, dirty bomb plotter Dhirin Barot and three of the 21/7 bombers in recent years.
She has raked in 3.5 million in taxpayer-funded support to help defend extremist suspects in recent years, according to new figures.
In the seven years documented in figures released under the Freedom of Information Act payments from the Legal Services Commission have almost quadrupled.
In one month alone - May last year - the firm billed almost 400,000 for legal services.
The 44-year-old mum of two once boasted in a magazine that those accused of terrorism come to her first.
In the same interview just 10 months before London’s July 7 suicide bombs, she claimed the terror threat in the UK was ‘deliberately hyped’ and said the Government were ‘probably guilty of promoting Islamaphobia’.