Foreign Criminal Of The Day - The Fakir Of Finsbury Park

It says much for the mindset of pathological terrorists that the worst of the worst adopt the most utterly absurd sobriquets.

Desmond O' Hare, one of the most vicious thugs that the Provisional IRA ever produced, took the flatulent and absurd nom de guerre of 'The Border Fox'; which didn't stop him being banged up for 40 years.

The most famous song written about Pancho Villa concerned his carriage, which was always breaking down. It's called 'The Cockroach'.

Go figure.

Mind you, the number of citizens in transit Mexico now produces speaks volumes for the investment the country has made in its infrastructure since Pancho's day.

But so it is also with Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, Egyptian-born perpetual candidate for 'Extreme Makeover', anti-Christian, anti-Semitic and anti-Western bigot, dedicated jihadist and sometime imam of London's notorious Finsbury Park Mosque, convicted today on 11 out of 15 counts of inciting murder and racial hatred.

Mostafa is, of course, more widely known by his nom de jihad of 'Abu Hamza al-Masri'.

Now there's a name to set you quaking in your boots, until even the shakiest Arabic reveals a glimpse of its true meaning - 'Hamza's Egyptian Dad'.

However, the madness of his moniker aside, Mostafa's conviction is one of the finest recent hours of a criminal justice system which has had precious few of them in the last week.

He once gulled a civil servant into giving him a British passport, something of a joke considering the radically un-British nature of his statements and beliefs. When his mosque was searched following his arrest, the cops found forged passports, CS gas, knives, and guns, all items not presumably in the usual inventory.

And it seems that the firebrand's legal troubles are not over, with The Great Satan wanting him to dance the hippy-hippy-sheikh. The fakir is well and truly...well, from here on in it's over you to you, Clayton Lee...