Handless hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri has pulled out his poison pen again — this time to fire off a scathing, 23-page letter written with his special prosthetic claiming his lawyers wronged him at last month’s trial in which he was convicted on terror charges.
The one-eyed, hook-handed imam penned the May 26 letter from his Metropolitan Correctional Center cell to “respected Madam” Manhattan federal Judge Katherine Forrest asking her permission to replace his legal team so he could have new representation at his Sept. 9 sentencing and when he appeals.
Al-Masri, who faces life in prison, claims in what is at least his third letter to Forrest that he was double-crossed by his lawyers in retaliation for writing the judge a March letter in which he successfully sought her blessing to take the witness stand — after his lawyers recommended he not testify.
Forrest on Friday appointed a public defender to represent al-Masri at a June 17 hearing to decide whether his lawyers should be replaced.