Radical cleric Abu Qatada may rail against Western lifestyles - but it doesn’t stop him indulging in treats like doughnuts and Pringles.
The notorious preacher was pictured outside his £450,000 taxpayer-funded home in London today filling up using large wheelie bins.
And although his inflammatory sermons warn against the trappings of Western culture, the contents of his garbage showed that his family is happy to indulge in it.
The 52-year-old, who claimed incapacity benefit in 2008 for his bad back, recently moved with his wife and four children to the three-bedroom home in the Harrow area after winning his latest appeal against being deported to his native Jordan.
The Al Qaeda ally reportedly pays £1,400 a month for the property - funded through state unemployment benefits.
One of the payments he has received from taxpayers in the past has been incapacity benefit - in 2008, he started receiving £150 a week after claiming his bad back meant he could not work.
It is not known whether he is still claiming to be incapacitated, but he did not appear to struggle with the bins outside his home on Tuesday.
His rubbish was contained in a plastic bag from supermarket Morrisons, and looked like it contained many of the items you would expect in a normal British household rather than the home of a man bent on the eradication of the West.
The bag contained a tube of Pringles, two cartons of Alpro soya milk, a box of doughnuts and a tin of what appeared to be some sort of chilli.
Qatada’s family moved in to the house last month - much to the shock of the homeowner, who was not warned about her controversial new tenant.
He was given the property after complaining that his previous £400,000 home was too small.
As well as benefits paid directly to the family or spent on rent, the taxpayer shells out around £100,000 each week to monitor the terror suspect and ensure he does not break his bail conditions, which force him to stay at home for at least 16 hours a day.
And a minister confirmed last month that Qatada has received more than £500,000 in legal aid to help his fight against extradition from the UK.
The cleric has been described as a ‘spiritual leader’ of Al Qaeda, and has been named on a UN list of international terrorists.
The British government has been attempting to deport Qatada for more than 10 years, but the courts have repeatedly ruled that he could face torture if forced to stand trial in Jordan.