London: Six British Muslims, including Abu Izzadeen who once heckled a top lawmaker on live television, have been handed jail terms for inciting terrorism.

Izzadeen, a British-born convert to Islam, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for fundraising for terrorism and four and a half years for inciting acts of terrorism abroad.

The terms will run concurrently. Izzadeen, who heckled the then Home Secretary John Reid, was found guilty at Kingston Crown Court of the offences.

He and fellow British-born Muslim convert Simon Keeler were both handed the same jail term after they were found guilty of fundraising for, and inciting, terrorism.

Four other men were also jailed over the same charges.

Izzadeen's offences related to inflammatory speeches in 2004 when US troops battled insurgents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

The sentencing was delayed after one of the guilty men, who had jumped bail for 10 days, turned himself in.

Shah Jalal Hussain, 25,surrendered at Kingston Crown Court after he went missing when the jury began deliberations on 8 April, prompting the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.

He was convicted of terrorist fundraising and breaking his bail conditions and jailed for two years and three months.

The defendants were all members of an extreme Islamist group known as Al-Muhajiroun, which has since been banned.

Abdul Saleem, 32,was sentenced to three years and nine months for inciting terrorism overseas and Ibrahim Hassan, 25, was jailed for two years and nine months on the same charge.

Abdul Muhid, 25,was found guilty of fund-raising for terrorists, and sentenced to two years in jail.

Source : PTI