Egyptian Illegal Migrant Who Raped Woman While Living in Hilton Hotel is a Convicted Islamic Terrorist

An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in London’s Hyde Park while living in the Hilton hotel at taxpayers’ expense has been revealed to be a convicted Islamic terrorist. The Mail has the story.

Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, 42, was found guilty in his absence of being part of a bomb-making cell in Egypt and given a seven-year jail sentence on May 5th 2015.

He and six other men were said to have manufactured explosives in a safe house flat to carry out “terrorist” acts such as the bombing of electricity pylons and gas lines.

The Daily Mail can reveal that Abouelela, a member of the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement, escaped from Egypt before being convicted. 

He claimed asylum when he arrived in the UK in April 2023, and was housed in taxpayer-funded hotel accommodation while his application was considered.

Abouelela was allowed to wander around freely and even posed for a selfie picture in January last year outside the Imperial War Museum North Museum in Trafford, Greater Manchester.

Home Office officials spent 17 months pondering over whether or not to grant his asylum application, despite apparently knowing of his bomb-making conviction, before he raped the vulnerable woman in Hyde Park last November.

Court records in Egypt reveal that Abouelela and his six accomplices rented an apartment in the Ebnia Baitak area of the sprawling 10th of Ramadan City east of Cairo where they made their bombs.

Abouelela was staying in a four-star Hilton Hotel in Ealing, courtesy of the British taxpayer, when he carried out his attack.

He was convicted of rape at Southwark Crown Court on May 22nd this year and was jailed for eight and a half years on Tuesday.

Abouelela is believed to have lived for periods in Malaysia and Sudan after he fled from Egypt, and apparently first claimed political asylum when he arrived in Turkey.

He was detained for at least 72 days at Ataturk airport in Istanbul after his asylum request was reportedly turned down by Turkish authorities in early 2019.

Abouelela desperately battled attempts to extradite him back to Egypt before Turkish authorities apparently relented and allowed him to stay in Turkey.

In a video posted online during his detention, he stated in Arabic that he was a member of the Egyptian “opposition” who had been detained for 72 days. He added: “I don’t know what will happen to me.”

But social media posts by Abouelela and his LinkedIn profile suggest he was allowed to remain living happily in Turkey which has expressed staunch support for the Muslim Brotherhood in recent years

Abouelela got married in December 2020, according to his Facebook profile, and went on to have a child with his wife.

But he later left Turkey and claimed asylum when he arrived in the UK in April 2023, saying that he would face persecution if he was returned to his native Egypt.

It is unclear whether he was forced to leave Turkey or did so under his own volition, although it was revealed in court this week that his wife and child remain living there.

Abouelela faces automatic deportation under the UK Borders Act 2007 after serving his sentence for rape as he will have served a sentence of over a year in prison.

But astonishingly, he could potentially manage to stay if he launches a successful legal appeal on the grounds that deportation would breach his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.

Worth reading in full.