The Aid Convoy charity, based in London’s East End, has boasted of raising more than £1 million of aid amidst fears that it, and others, is a cover for foreign fighters to enter Syria and for financial support to jihadists.

It is one of four charities being investigated by the Charity Commission, and the police, for terrorist connections. Another is Al Fatiha Global, the charity with which Alan Henning travelled to Syria before being taken hostage and murdered by Isis.