Terrorist Who Called for Troops to Come Home ‘in Body Bags’ Is in a £300k Council Flat, Mail Reports. Veterans Face Losing Theirs

News | By Matt, Editor

Scott Marshall served in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. He has PTSD, and since April he has had a room at Stone Court, a veterans’ housing project in Torquay. He and about a dozen other ex-servicemen there have now been told the government money paying for their places won’t be extended. They face having to leave by March, GB News reports.

Mohammed Mizanur Rahman was jailed in 2007 for soliciting murder after a London protest where, the Evening Standard and the Mail report, he called for British soldiers to come home from Iraq in body bags. In 2016 he was jailed again, alongside Anjem Choudary, for inviting support for Islamic State. According to the Daily Mail, he now lives in a heavily subsidised, three-bedroom council-owned flat in Enfield, north London, worth around £300,000.

On Remembrance Sunday, those two stories sit side by side.

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Key facts

• Rahman, 43, was convicted of soliciting murder in 2007 over speeches at a 2006 protest in London. He was jailed for four years.
• In 2016 he and Choudary were convicted of inviting support for Islamic State, a proscribed terrorist organisation. Both got five and a half years. Rahman was released on licence in 2018.
• The Daily Mail reports that he lives in a subsidised, council-owned three-bed flat in Enfield worth about £300,000. GB News and the Evening Standard have carried the report.
• About a dozen veterans at Stone Court in Torquay have been told that funding for their places under the Reducing Veterans’ Homelessness programme will not be extended, The Sun reported. The Ministry of Defence says the funding “is given for a time-limited period”.
• Prime Minister Andy Burnham says “no one who has served our country should ever be left to sleep rough on our streets” and will write to councils on Armistice Day.

The convictions

In 2006 Rahman was filmed with a loudspeaker at a protest in London. “We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad,” he said of Western troops, the Evening Standard reports. A jury convicted him of soliciting murder at a retrial in 2007.

In July 2016 he was convicted alongside Choudary of inviting support for Islamic State. Both men were jailed for five and a half years. Choudary is now serving a life sentence for directing the banned terror group al-Muhajiroun.

The Mail and GB News report that while he was in Belmarsh, Rahman received £1,300 in compensation after complaining about a strip search.

What the Mail reported

The paper says he has been posting videos on TikTok to thousands of followers. In one, it says, he claimed that “99 per cent to nearly 100 per cent” of people convicted of terrorism had cases that had “nothing to do with violence”. In another he called Britain, America and Israel an “axis of evil”. TikTok banned his accounts after media inquiries, and the Mail says he vowed the ban “is not going to stop me”.

The Mail also reports that books he wrote under the name Abu Baraa were taken down from Waterstones and TikTok’s online shop, and are still listed on Amazon.

Professor Anthony Glees, a security expert at the University of Buckingham, told the paper: “He represents a serious national security threat. Many will be surprised that he is not locked up again.”

Rahman’s side of it: when Mail reporters asked him about his books, he accused them of being “extremists” and denied being one himself. No new charges against him have been reported since his release. The reports don’t say when his tenancy began or who granted it.

Convicted terrorist Mohammed Mizanur Rahman reportedly lives in a subsidised three-bedroom council flat valued at £300,000.

Meanwhile, British people struggle to afford a home.

He called for our soldiers to return “in body bags”. Convicted terror offenders should NOT qualify… pic.twitter.com/RwVjCjDMrI

— Benonwine (@benonwine) November 7, 2026

The veterans

Mr Marshall, 42, is a former Lance Bombardier from Birmingham. After Iraq he served with the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus in 2005. Last year his baby son, Teddy, died shortly after birth. His relationship broke down and he lost his job driving a concrete mixer. The Royal British Legion referred him to Stone Court.

Maurice Quinlan, 47, a former Navy seaman, had been sleeping rough in a seafront shelter before he got a place there. His two-year-old daughter stays with him three nights a week. He told The Sun he feared it was “all going to be taken away”.

The residents had about two weeks’ notice that an application to extend their funding had failed, according to the report. “It’s disgraceful,” Mr Marshall said. “Me and my pals put our lives on the line for this country.”

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “Funding through the RVH is given for a time-limited period.”

Jailed twice over terror. Still housed on the taxpayer.

Mohammed Mizanur Rahman was jailed in 2007 for encouraging the murder of western troops in Iraq. In 2016 he was convicted again after swearing loyalty to the terror group Islamic State. The Daily Mail reports he now lives… pic.twitter.com/nesBuuh2cI

— The State of Britain (@stateofbritain1) November 7, 2026

The Prime Minister’s pledge

On Saturday Downing Street said Mr Burnham will write to councils across England on 11 November asking for plans to house veterans sleeping rough before Christmas. “People who stepped forward prepared to put their lives on the line for the rest of us should never lack a roof over their head,” he said, according to the BBC. “When they need help, the country owes them more than warm words. It owes them a bed every night, a proper plan and someone in their corner from day one.”

Councils are being asked to use part of £874 million already announced for homelessness, and £8.7 million is going to eight veterans’ organisations. None of that, so far, has been promised to Stone Court.

Our view

Nobody is arguing that a man who has served his sentence should be left on the street. But social housing is scarce and who gets it is a choice. If the Mail is right, a man convicted of soliciting murder and of supporting Islamic State has a subsidised family flat in London, while men who wore the uniform are being told their places were only ever temporary.

The Prime Minister has found the right words. His government also runs the Ministry of Defence, which funds the scheme. If “no one who has served our country” should sleep rough, he can start by finding the money for Stone Court before March. A letter to councils on Wednesday won’t keep a roof over Scott Marshall’s head.

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Sources

• Daily Mail, 7 November 2026: the flat, TikTok videos, books, Prof Glees, Rahman’s response
• GB News, 7 November 2026: convictions, flat, compensation
• Evening Standard, 7 November 2026: 2007 sentence, licence conditions
• GB News, 7 November 2026 (reporting The Sun): Stone Court veterans, MoD statement
• BBC News, 7 November 2026: Burnham’s veterans pledge and funding

Images: the council flats pictured are a stock image from elsewhere in London, not Rahman’s home (Miles Glendinning / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0). Veterans march past the Cenotaph: POA(Phot) Mez Merrill / MOD, OGL. Social images also use photos by PO(Phot) Owen Cooban / MOD (OGL), Bill Henderson and Lewis Clarke / Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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