Former Finsbury Park Mosque hate preacher Abu Hamza has demanded that he be returned to the UK as his US prison is too tough.

Lawyers representing the hook-handed Hamza, who is currently serving a life sentence in a high-security prison, have said that he would return to a British jail "in a second" if he could.

He has complained that the "inhuman and degrading" conditions in the "supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado "breach his human rights". Hamza's lawyers have said he is “hopeful” about his appeal.

The former imam was given a life sentence for terrorism and kidnapping offences in New York in January 2015 and has since been mostly kept in solitary confinement in a special unit, preventing him from contacting most of the outside world.