Notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary has seen a bid to overturn his conviction for drumming up support for Islamic State thrown out of court.
Court of Appeal judges quashed the 49-year-old’s application for permission to appeal the five-and-a-half year jail term he was handed at the Old Bailey last September.
Choudary, was first arrested in September 2014 as part of a Scotland Yard operation in which 19 addresses were raided, including his former home in Bromley Road, Walthamstow.
Despite being a leader of the banned group al-Muhajiroun, the preacher had always managed to stay on the right side of the law.
However, he finally slipped up in a series of talks posted on YouTube between June 2014 and March 2015, in which he backed IS and was later found guilty of inviting support for terrorist organisation.
Today (Thursday, October 19), Choudary, who was living in Hampton Road, Ilford, before he was jailed, saw a renewed bid to overturn his conviction rejected by three judges in a written ruling.
Lady Justice Sharp and two other judges ruled that he did not have an "arguable" ground of appeal, and that his conviction was not "arguably unsafe".
Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 33, from Whitechapel, who was also found guilty of inviting support for IS alongside Choudary, also saw an appeal against his sentence turned down by the judges.
When sentencing last year, Mr Justice Holroyde said the men had shown ''contempt for the values of the democracy in which we live'' and failed to denounce the appalling violence of IS.
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