Police had Hamza 'murder evidence' 7 years ago: Phone-tap record inadmissable in UK will be used by Americans. America will use phone tap evidence gathered by Britain seven years ago to try to jail Abu Hamza al-Masri for life on terrorist offences. Cleric sent gangs to seize control of rival mosques: Abu Hamza sent teams of young supporters around the country with orders to take over other mosques — but police refused to intervene.
Phone tap evidence links Abu Hamza to murder of hostages in Yemen in 1999: GCHQ intercepted satellite calls from desert to cleric in London during a kidnapping in which three Britons were shot dead.