Pictured: convicted Islamic terrorist sentenced to death for plotting to kill an Egyptian Prime Minister in the 1990s who is running a honey business from a north London lock-up

By RICHARD MARSDEN, GENERAL REPORTER and SAMUEL HUDSON and ISAAC CROWSON and SEB TOPAN Published: 22:07, 9 August 2026 | Updated: 22:07, 9 August 2026 A convicted Islamic terrorist sentenced to death for plotting to kill an Egyptian Prime Minister is running a honey and food supply business in north London. Yasser Al-Sirri, 63, a one-time member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, first came to Britain and claimed asylum in the 1990s following a failed assassination plot. He was turned down but fought the decision repeatedly through the courts and appears to have won a three-decade battle to stay in Britain. In 2021, the Appeal Court ruled in the his favour on condition he took refugee status The Daily Mail has now tracked Al-Sirri down to a £500,000 flat in upmarket Maida Vale, west London. He was also present at a honey business in north west London, where he works and appears to be the boss. It has a few employees and provides wholesale food and drink products. Staff members initially said that Al-Sirri was not in his office when a reporter visited, despite his car being parked in the driveway. Convicted terrorist Yasser al-Sirri pictured outside his home in Maida Vale, North London Block housing al-Sirri's £500,000 flat where he now lives after long legal battle One said: ‘For now he is not here. He has gone for some other business with someone else. Once he comes, I'll tell you. He will call you no problem.’ Al-Sirri was later in his office, where he claimed to be on a phone call and refused to talk. Businesses in the area said he supplied many of the local businesses with wholesale drinks and said he was known as "Hajj" to locals. One said: ‘We see him everyday walking down the road at around 5pm, towards the mosque. He’s got a red beard, so we always recognise him.’ Al-Sirri was a member of Egypt's Islamic Jihad when, in 1993, the group attempted to assassinate the then Egyptian prime minister Atef Sedki using a car bomb outside a girls' school. A 12-year-old girl was killed in the blast and he was sentenced to death in his absence by an Eygptian Court despite his arguments he played no part. He also defended Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. Following the death of 9/11 mastermind bin Laden, Al-Sirri was quoted as saying: ‘The al Qaeda leader met his God willingly but in an unplanned manner and he died an honourable death’. Industrial building in London housing al-Sirri's honey and wholesale food business In 2003 he defended Taliban propaganda videos of an American vehicle exploding. The same year, he was indicted in his absence by a Grand Jury in New York accused of conspiring to provide material support to Islamist group Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya. The US did not pursue proceedings to have him extradited from Britain. Al-Sirri also openly supported Egyptian-born fanatic Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, believed to be the mastermind of the earlier World Trade Centre bombing in 1993. Rahman received a life sentence in the United States for plotting a ‘war of urban terrorism’. Former Tory MP Patrick Mercer has described him as ‘a dangerous individual.’ Al-Sirri first claimed asylum in 1994 after fleeing his home country but was turned down and has taken the issue to court more than eight times at great cost to British taxpayers. After a tribunal decided he was entitled to remain in the UK as a refugee in 2001, then Home Secretary Priti Patel contested the finding. At the Appeal Court, judges ruled in the convicted terrorist’s favour despite Article 1F of the Refugee Convention excluding individuals who have committed ‘terrorist acts or other serious criminal offences’. Al-Sirri was sentenced to death after convicted in his absence of conspiring to kill Egypt's prime minister in 1994. British court papers have revealed he saw 'violent jihad' as an 'obligation for Muslims'. The Home Office declined to comment on individual cases.