Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has been found guilty of supporting terrorism by a New York court.

He was accused of 11 crimes including attempting to build an al-Qaeda training camp in the US state of Oregon in 1999, helping the kidnappers of 16 tourists in Yemen in 1998, and abetting religious war in Afghanistan.

Hamza, 56, was finally extradited to the US in 2012 after a lengthy legal battle and having served a seven year sentence in the UK for inciting murder and race hate, with his fiery sermons at Finsbury Park mosque in London.

He denied all the charges against him, but a jury of eight men and four women unanimously found him guilty on all 11 terror-related charges and he now faces possible life in prison when he is sentenced on 9 September.

The cleric’s lawyers have said that they will appeal the decision on the grounds that too much weight was given to his comments on other unrelated matters for which he has not been charged. Speaking outside Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse in Manhatten, Jeremy Schneider said:

“Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, 9/11, World Trade Centre, USS Cole – all those things which our client was not charged with specifically, they played much more of a role than we believe it should have”