Anjem Choudhary faces years living alone in a 8ft by 5ft cell inside a ‘jail within a jail’ reserved for the most radical and dangerous terrorists.
He was found guilty of directing terror group Al-Muhajiroun.
The hate preacher, 57, who is facing a life sentence is likely to be kept in a specialist ‘separation centre’ – where he will be banned from speaking to any regular prisoners.
Tenuously likened by critics to the Camp X-Ray detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, they include cells with sound-blocking glass ‘bafflers’ to prevent their highly dangerous residents from radicalising inmates on other wings.
There are currently two of the facilities in operation at high-security prisons HMP Frankland in County Durham and HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire, both housing roughly nine prisoners each.
Ian Acheson, who called for the creation of separation centres in a 2016 review of Islamic extremism in prisons, said he expects Choudhary to first be moved into a segregation unit pending an assessment with input from MI5.
The former prison governor said Choudhary ‘absolutely qualifies’ as the kind of inmate who should be kept in a separation centre and expects that he will be.
The facility at HMP Frankland – dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’ due to the many convicted murderers, rapists and terrorists imprisoned there – was said in 2021 to contain Hashem Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomb plotter.
