HATE cleric Abu Hamza has hooked up with a new pal behind bars — London Tube bomb plotter Dhiren Barot. The fanatics sleep four cells apart on the maximum security wing of South London’s Belmarsh jail and pray together every Friday. Good planning. Do they use mirrors or do they tap out Morse code on the pipes?
Barot, 34, got 40 years this month for his plot to cause carnage both sides of the Atlantic. A prison source said: “He and Hamza are very close. They’re allowed together for Friday prayers and get the chance to speak with all of the other terror suspects. There’s nothing the prison can do to stop them.
“Hamza seems in awe of him — he sees Barot as the senior man.”
That's 'coz barot is a Lion Of Islam™, while captain hook is a big mouth whose only "war experience" was being a bouncer, and blowing himself by screwing up in a bomb class.
Hook-handed Hamza, 48, yesterday lost his appeal against a seven-year jail sentence for incitement to murder and race hate charges. He was refused permission to appeal to the House of Lords. But he can apply directly to the Law Lords.
And a prison source revealed that Hamza faces more misery — after losing all his privileges for trying to organise a revolt against jail rules.