A convicted terrorist is living in a subsidised three-bedroom council-owned flat in north London valued at around £300,000, according to reports that emerged as the country marked Remembrance Sunday.

Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 43, is said to be housed in the flat in Enfield, close to several primary schools. The Daily Mail first reported the arrangement, and the account has since been carried by other outlets. The reports do not say when the tenancy began or which authority granted it.

Rahman was jailed for four years in 2007 after calling at a London rally for British soldiers serving in Iraq to be brought home in body bags. He told the crowd: “We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad.” He was convicted of soliciting murder over speeches made at a protest in 2006.

He was convicted a second time in 2016, alongside the hate preacher Anjem Choudary, of inviting support for Islamic State after the pair pledged allegiance to the group. Both men were sentenced to five and a half years in prison and were released on licence in October 2018 after serving half of their sentences. Under their licence conditions, they were banned from contacting each other and from accessing the internet until July 2021. Choudary is now serving a life sentence for directing the banned terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun.

According to the reports, Rahman, who writes under the name Abu Baraa, has been using TikTok to broadcast messages to teenagers from his Enfield home. One of his channels had more than 4,000 followers and tens of thousands of likes before it was banned after the platform was approached by the media, and a previous account had 6,000 followers. A search of the platform now appears to show an account matching his alias has been banned.

He is also an author of books on Islamic fundamentalism. Fourteen of his texts were listed for sale by Waterstones, Britain’s largest high street bookseller. The books have since been removed from Waterstones and from TikTok’s online shop, but they remain available to buy from Amazon. One book, entitled What is Known From Islam By Necessity, is reported to describe Jews who do not recognise the prophethood of Muhammed as disbelievers destined for hellfire.

Rahman, a father of four who works as an accountant, was spotted leaving his north London flat last Friday before heading to a local mosque for afternoon prayers. When approached by a reporter, he denied being an extremist and accused the reporter of being “extremist”.

The reports also revisit a payment Rahman received while in prison. He accepted an out-of-court settlement of £1,300 from the Ministry of Justice after complaining about a strip search at Belmarsh jail in 2016, when officers were searching for a mobile phone. He described the search as “torture” and tantamount to a human rights abuse, and said the authorities settled after a long legal battle.

Professor Anthony Glees, an intelligence expert at the University of Buckingham, told the Mail that Rahman should not have been compensated, saying strip searches “are standard procedure, especially in cases like this”.

The revelation has prompted fresh questions about how convicted terrorists are housed and monitored after release, and about the monitoring of extremist material on social media. No new charges against Rahman have been reported since his release from prison.