Trevor Brooks (born 18 April 1975), better known as Abu Izzadeen, was a British al-Qaeda recruiter and hate preacher who was a suspect in the 2017 Westminster attack.
Biography[]
Trevor Brooks was born in Hackney, East London, England on 18 April 1975 to a family of immigrants from Jamaica, and he converted to Islam in 1993. He worked as an electrician, and he met Abu Hamza al-Masri and Omar Bakri Muhammad at the Finsbury Park Mosque during the 1990s, becoming a radical Islamist. In 2001, he gave lectures in Pakistan as an al-Muhajiroun member, and he attended al-Qaeda training camps. He openly stated that he wanted to die as a suicide bomber, and he praised the 7/7 attackers of 2005. On 2 August 2007, he was arrested for inciting terrorism, and he was again arrested in April 2007, April 2008, and November 2015. On 22 March 2017, he was one of the suspects in the 2017 Westminster attack, and he was incorrectly reported as the attacker by Channel 4 News and The Independent; Khalid Masood was later identified as the attacker, and it was verified that Abu Izzadeen remained in prison.