Abu Qatada to be re-housed at taxpayers' expense - The Sun

GRASPING hate cleric Abu Qatada is to get ANOTHER new home on the taxpayer, it emerged last night.

The fanatic, 51, and his family have been housed in a £400,000 North London property since February — with the public paying for most of the £1,900-a-month rent.

But yesterday it was revealed that the preacher is to be re-housed again at an undisclosed location.

His QC, human rights expert Edward Fitzgerald, confirmed: "The family are going to relocate and therefore Mr Qatada would accept the Home Office-approved accommodation."

Jordanian-born terror suspect Qatada is already estimated to have cost Britain more than £3million in legal aid fees, benefits, prison and security costs since 2002.

He was released from jail this week after a judge ruled he could not be booted out of the country — as deporting him to face a court in Jordan might see him face an unfair trial.

The cost to taxpayers of monitoring him round-the-clock is reckoned to be about £100,000 a week.