Posted on 08/16/2005 2:40:08 AM PDT by Budgie
LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza is covered from head to foot in scabs because he has an ailment that makes his skin bleed.
Inmates at top-security Belmarsh prison in south London were already up in arms about the stink Hamza is causing - by refusing to take showers.
Now the Islamic fundamentalist, who used to preach at London's Finsbury Park Mosque, is leaving a trail of "white pellets" behind him as they fall from the scabs.
A prison nurse has apparently been applying ointment but with little success.
A prison insider said today: "Hamza has been skipping showers, probably because of his disability. He stinks, so other prisoners have been complaining about him for a long time.
"I think he had a skin problem before he came to Belmarsh but now it is an epidemic. He has scabs all over his arms, legs and chest. The only part that is OK is his face.
"Wherever he goes, he leaves white pellets. It is very unpleasant for him and everybody else."
Hamza, 47, is in the jail awaiting trial on charges including soliciting murder.
His solicitor Muddassar Arani confirmed that he has a skin condition but refused to identify it. She said: "It is affecting him from head to toe.
"He is bleeding everywhere and when I go to see him on prison visits I can see the blood. It is very off-putting because I don't want to draw attention to it but you can't help but see it.
"He cannot get enough showers either because he has only two hours association time a day and that includes his legal visits.
"He has a disability and does not want to shower in front of other prisoners."
Claims that Hamza has contagious scabies have been denied.
One theory is that he could have psioriasis, which results in flakes falling from crusty red patches on the skin.
Hamza has been in Belmarsh since last May when he was held at the request of the US authorities, who want him extradited to face terrorism charges there.
Since then, he has been charged in the UK with 16 offences including soliciting others to murder non-believers, racial hatred and possessing a document liable to help terrorists.
Hamza will face the charges in July before any decision is made in the US case. The Home Office is also trying to remove his UK citizenship....
Revenge is sweet!!!!!! I have to say it ....hahahahahahahahahahahahaah! A pox upon him and his children and his children's children! Sounds like "cultist crabs" to me.
Gosh, I hope it is extremely painful and uncomfortable at all times.
They do indeed.
My hope is that the prison has a kind wardress, serves his bacon and eggs for vreakfast, ham and cheese for lunch and pork chops for dinner.
Most of all, I hope he is able to establish loving physical bonds with the other inmates.
Land crabs... they like fetid, bacteria-rich environment.
Guess they don't have labs in England that can test scraping from his skin to determine what the scabs are from.
I not only hope the area's are intensely itchy but also extremely painful.
A fire hose and some Spic and Span ought to clean him and his cell up.
I wonder if his condition is similar to the one Yassir Arafag died of?
May Allah cause you to forget which hand has the hook the next time you wipe your ass!
Ahhhhhh, a liftime of psioriasis and now way to scratch it. I love it. Now give this POS 6 to the head and be done with it.
Guess they've ruled out the possibility that he's been playing around with dangerous chemicals.
Or apparently dermatologists either.
Not evil surfacing, sound like psoriasis getting worse.
Hehehehe...........just keep him in quarantee and let him rot in jail. *~*
"quaranteen" (?)
Maybe God just decided he'd waited long enough, and it was time to start punishing this son of a b*tch.
Where is Tomas de Torquamada now that we really need him?
Ohh, don't forget a big old southern ham dinner on Sunday
(Hey, if I were Queen of the Universe, that's what all the captured terrorists wold be eating. Mr Moose-limb meet Mr Piggy)
"Ohh, don't forget a big old southern ham dinner on Sunday"
... following the sabbath services.
"Everywhere he goes, he leaves white pellets" - ????
That's an image I didn't need this early in the morning.
Reckon it's leprosy or somethin'? Let's see, my sympathy meter is at 0.0001.
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