A British man who was convicted of an anti-gay hate crime has allegedly blown himself up in Iraq.
According to the Daily Mail, Kabir Ahmed killed himself in a suicide mission against a Shia leader in Baiji, a city located in northern Iraq.
He was killed on a mission allegedly sponsored by the terror group ISIS.
In 2012, the 30-year-old was convicted for handing out leaflets calling for the execution of gays.
The pamphlets, distributed near the Jamia Mosque on Rosehill Street, Derby, had titles such as ‘Turn or Burn’ and ‘The Death Penalty,’ which showed an image of a mannequin hanging from a noose.
Another, entitled ‘God Abhors You – Gay’, warned of ‘severe punishment’ for gays and lesbians and those who ‘remain silent about the evil.’
The leaflets were handed out before Derby’s Gay Pride parade in August 2011.
Ahmed was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
According to the Daily Mail, at trial Ahmed said LGBTI people should be ‘shunned’ and ‘if we don’t stop it something like a tsunami will happen here, something on that scale.’
In a recent BBC interview, Ahmed claimed approximately 500 British nationals were fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
A Foreign Office spokesman made the following comment to the Daily Mail:
‘We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Iraq and are looking into them.’