An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in London’s Hyde Park is a convicted Islamic terrorist, it has emerged.

Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, 42, was found guilty in his absence of being part of a bomb-making cell in Egypt and given a seven-year jail sentence on May 5, 2015.

Abouelela, a member of the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement, escaped from Egypt before being convicted.

He arrived in the UK where he claimed asylum and was housed at the taxpayer’s expense in a Hilton hotel in London while his application was considered, the Daily Mail reports.

The Home Office took 17 months to make a decision about his asylum application despite reportedly being aware of his bomb-making conviction, before he raped a woman in Hyde Park last November.

He was convicted of rape at Southwark Crown Court on May 22 this year and was jailed for eight and a half years on Tuesday….

He went on to leave Turkey and claimed asylum when he arrived in the UK in April 2023 saying he would face persecution if he was returned to Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood is regarded as a terror organisation in many countries, although it is not banned in the UK….

His address was given in court as a Hilton hotel in Ealing, west London, which is being used to house migrants, according to reports….

Abouelela was subsequently diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder and complex PTSD, defence barrister Kane Sharpe told the court.

Judge Perrins, however, stated he found this mitigating factor to be “minimal”, adding: “There is little connection between those circumstances and your decision to rape the victim on that night.

“It’s clear to me you do not believe you have done anything wrong.”…