Editing Abu Hamza al-Masri (section)

===Family===
On 16 May 1980, Hamza married British citizen Valerie Fleming, a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[religious conversion|convert]] to Islam,<ref name="bbcfeb06">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4694218.stm|title=Hamza's ex-wife life threatened|date=8 February 2006|publisher=BBC|access-date=18 March 2009|archive-date=19 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819054537/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4694218.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> and soon after they had a son, Mohammed Mustafa Kamel born in October 1981. In 1984, their relationship came under increasing strain and later in that year Hamza took three-year-old Mohammed with him to Egypt, effectively breaking contact with Valerie.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Syal|first1=Rajeev|title=Hooked on Hamza|url=https://www.thetimes.com/best-law-firms/profile-legal/article/hooked-on-hamza-39lzhng27ff|date=18 February 2006|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|url-access=subscription|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-date=29 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729002016/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hooked-on-hamza-39lzhng27ff|url-status=live}}</ref> Eventually they divorced and he married Najat Mustafa, with whom he has seven children: five sons followed by two daughters.<ref>{{cite news|last=Casciani|first=Dominic|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4644960.stm|title=Profile: Abu Hamza|publisher=BBC|date=7 February 2006|access-date=10 April 2012|archive-date=13 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213163722/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4644960.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> Hamza's stepdaughter, Donna Traverso, told ''[[The Times]]'' in 2006 that she was convinced Hamza had duped her mother, Valerie, into marrying him in order to gain the right to stay in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Syal |first1=Rajeev |title=Dad is a coward, a hypocrite and he deserves to rot in jail |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/dad-is-a-coward-a-hypocrite-and-he-deserves-to-rot-in-jail-8hfj38jt6f8 |access-date=27 August 2018 |work=[[The Times]] |date=27 July 2006 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=28 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828035859/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dad-is-a-coward-a-hypocrite-and-he-deserves-to-rot-in-jail-8hfj38jt6f8 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1999, Hamza's son Mohammed, then 17 years old, was arrested in [[Yemen]] with Hamza's stepson Mohssin Ghalain and eight other men. All were tried and convicted of planning a terrorist bombing campaign that the prosecution alleged Hamza had sent the men to carry out. Mohammed and Mohssin received prison sentences of three and seven years, respectively.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Britons convicted of Yemen bomb plot|date=9 August 1999|newspaper=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/415096.stm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717031707/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/415096.stm|archive-date=17 July 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=11 March 2000|title=Abu Hamza and the Islamic Army: Day by Day: A chronology of events surrounding the "bomb plot" and kidnapping|publisher=Albab|url=http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/hamza/day.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000525042938/http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/hamza/day.htm|archive-date=25 May 2000|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Hamza's Moroccan daughter-in-law was jailed for attempting to smuggle a mobile phone sim card when visiting him in [[HM Prison Belmarsh|Belmarsh prison]] in 2012. She is now facing deportation but because she is the sole carer of her son, a British national, the European Court of Justice's [[advocate general]] has ruled she cannot automatically be deported despite her criminality unless she is deemed to pose a 'serious' threat to society.<ref>{{cite news|title=Woman fighting deportation is Abu Hamza's daughter-in-law, says MP|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/06/woman-fighting-deportation-is-abu-hamzas-daughter-in-law-says-mp|work=The Guardian|date=6 February 2016|access-date=20 July 2017|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906090950/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/06/woman-fighting-deportation-is-abu-hamzas-daughter-in-law-says-mp|url-status=live}}</ref>