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Hate preacher Abu Hamza's family home is having a £40,000 makeover paid for by taxpayers, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Workmen from at least three construction firms have already spent two months doing up the £700,000, five-bedroom council property in an exclusive West London street.
Astonishingly, it is the second time in only five years that council bosses have approved expensive renovations on the property where the hook-handed cleric's wife and eight children live supported by benefits worth nearly £700 a week.
Officially, the latest work is to underpin the property's foundations after an engineer warned of subsidence.