A radical imam who helped prompt the government's extremism crackdown is reportedly still active in his local mosque where he 'speaks to primary school children'.
Shakeel Begg was found to be an 'extremist preacher' by a High Court judge in 2016.Begg has also continued to work with the Met Police and in September, Trevor Lawry, the local borough commander visited the mosque for an interfaith forum.
Who's shocked? Anyone? Bueller?
Furthermore the force supported Begg's libel case against the BBC in 2016 saying he had supported Prevent - the government's counter-extremism programme.
Should they have to investigate themselves under terrorism legislation then?
Lord Justice Haddon-Cave dismissed this, saying that Begg had promoted religious violence 'by telling Muslims that violence in support of Islam would constitute a man's greatest deed'.
At last, a judge with common sense instead of Common Purpose!
A spokesperson for The Met denied that Mr Begg had an advisory role with the force and instead attended a faith breakfast with officers. They said these types of events are critical for 'engagement work' and that the purpose of the faith breakfast was to talk about the 'stop and search charter'.
Yes, we know, it's who you want to 'engage with' that's worrying us...
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