Put like that, it's not much of a story, especially when you learn it's not actually notorious hook-handed hate-preacher Abu Hamza's house, but a property providing a home to his estranged family. (Hamza is currently at home at Belmarsh.) It hasn't stopped the Daily Mail, though, from getting hot and very bothered about the idea of the Hamzas not only living at the taxpayers' expense in a giant house in Shepherds Bush ("an area popular with bankers"... because they're very deserving, aren't they?), but also having their home underpinned, insulated and "painted an elegant cream", the bill handed to hard-working families. Hammersmith and Fulham Council respond that they have a responsibility to future tenants and taxpayers to keep fix the subsidence. More here.

The Abu Hamza property trail [January 19, 2007]

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