A self-proclaimed jihadist currently incarcerated in the UK for attempted murder and threatening politicians has won the lottery.

Rakeem Malik, formerly Alice Paul Anthony Rex Harrison until his rebirth to Islam, scooped £100,000 (US$113,000) on a lottery scratch card piece he was on 24-hour interval liberate from a untroubled mental wellness unit. That’s according to Labour MP Jess Phillips, to whom Malik sent dying threats from his prison prison cell in 2020.

The 54-year-old captive was sentenced to five years for threats to Phillips and other politicians, including then Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Prime Minister Theresa May. That was on cover of the lifetime sentence he received in 1999 for attempting to strangulate a electric cell Ilex paraguariensis to dying with his shoelaces.

Chilling Threats

But during a recent parliamentary debate on the government’s controversial young National Security Bill, Phillips revealed that anti-terrorism police had “turned up mob-handed [in great numbers] to my office” after Malik’s windfall.

Police explained they were interested Malik would apply the money to make Phillips harm.

“The threats were jihadist inwards nature and for the most part around how the person inward prison – plain a lay on the line factor, on the counterbalance of probabilities – was workings with people on the remote to defeat me and my family,” Phillips said.

Malik has transferred the drawing winnings into his prison house account, The Mail on Sunday reports, without citing the source of its knowledge.

During his poison-pen spree, Malik threatened to violate and dispatch Phillips and to eat May’s corpse. He promised Dr. Johnson he would vote down him “by Christmas,” The Daily Mail reported lowest year.

A Prison Service spokesperson told the Mail that Malik’s outlay is closely monitored, and he can buoy only buy approved items the likes of food, toiletries, and video games.

“Spending past prisoners is tightly restricted and any transfers are theme to favorable reception past prison house staff,” the voice said.

And, under sure circumstances, lottery tickets. While inmates are proscribed from gambling inwards prison, thither is no more law of nature in the UK that prohibits them from purchasing drawing tickets patch on twenty-four hour period tone ending or from keeping the winnings.

Unworthy Winners

In 2004, the twelvemonth that the UK National Lottery launched and was therefore relieve somewhat controversial, serial rapist and Iorworth Hoare won £7 one thousand thousand (US$8 million) with a fine he purchased while on daytime release.

One of his victims started civic proceedings for damages, but the pillow slip was dismissed because too a great deal time had elapsed. The dupe had neglected to sue Hoare at the clip of the crime, 16 years earlier, because he was penniless. Instead, she had claimed £5,000 (US$5,680) from the government’s victim compensation scheme.

The House of Lords overturned the decision and the dupe was awarded £50,000 ($57,000) inward compensation. Hoare was required to compensate costs for both sides of around £800,000 (US$909,000).

He was released inwards 2005 after 30 years slow bars.