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| British man guilty of funding Brussels and Paris terror suspect in Birmingham park | |
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| A British man has been found guilty of giving £3,000 to a key suspect in the Brussels and Paris terror attacks. | |
| Zakaria Boufassil handed cash to Mohamed Abrini, the so-called "the man in the hat", after he was caught on CCTV at Brussels airport moments before the bombing. | |
| Testifying at Kingston Crown Court in London last week, the 26-year-old admitted meeting Abrini in a Birmingham park and to holding money for his conspirator Mohamed Ali Ahmed. | |
| Boufassil claimed he had "no idea" of its intended use, but prosecutor Max Hill QC said there was "no doubt" he passed over the cash for assisting terrorism. | |
| "The intention could not be more clear," said Mr Hill. | |
| Abrini was questioned by Belgian investigators in April over his suspected involvement in the Brussels attacks in March and the Paris attacks in November 2015. | |
| A jury of six men and six women at south-west London's Kingston Crown Court found Boufassil, 26, from Birmingham, guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism. | |
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