A race-hate preacher who influenced one of the men involved in the July 7 terror attacks on the London transport system was deported yesterday.

Abdullah al-Faisal was flown out of Gatwick on a flight to Kingston, Jamaica, the country that he left more than 20 years ago. He was accompanied by two police officers and an immigration officer.

The Government’s official account of the 2005 London bombings said that the firebrand cleric had a strong influence on Germaine Lindsay, who blew up a Tube train at King’s Cross, killing 26 people.

John Reid, the Home Secretary, said that al-Faisal, 43, a Muslim preacher, would now be excluded from Britain.

He added: “We are committed to protecting the public and have made it clear that foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality and break our laws can expect to be deported after they have served a prison sentence. We will not tolerate those who seek to spread hate and fear in our communities.”

The preacher, born into a Christian family and baptised Trevor Forrest before converting to Islam, was deported after he reached the date on which he was eligible for parole in a seven-year sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.

Al-Faisal, who used to live in Stratford, East London, was found guilty at the Old Bailey in 2003 of three charges of soliciting murder and three charges of stirring up racial hatred.

He told young British Muslims that it was their duty to kill nonbelievers, Jews, Hindus and Westerners, and urged them to adopt a “jihad mentality”.

The jury watched a video of al-Faisal after the September 11 attacks telling up to 150 young Muslims that the Koran justified attacking “kaffirs”, or unbelievers.

“When there is a legitimate target, you strike at it,” he said. “If women and children die, they become collateral damage.

Is it permissible to drop bombs on a kaffir nation, even if Muslims live there? It is permissible and the Muslims become martyrs.”

Germaine Lindsay, 19, the July 7 bomber from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, who was also Jamaican-born, is believed to have attended at least one of al-Faisal’s lectures and to have listened to tapes of other sermons by him. The recordings of the lectures, sold at specialist Islamic bookshops, formed the basis of the prosecution case in 2003.

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