Lad nicked by terror cops was award-winning student living in £1.5 million council house since arriving from Iraq
Neighbours claim the family had a Ramadan-style 'siren' alarm clock to wake them up at 4am
A SUSPECT arrested by counter terror cops was living in a £1.5million council house after moving here from Iraq.
The man, named locally as Ali Esayed, 19, was taken away from his three-storey home in Kennington, South East London, where police used battering rams to break down the door.
It's believed he has been living at the five-bedroom Victorian terrace with his parents and two sisters, aged 26 and 21, for around five years.
According to neighbours Esayed had begun dressing in white robes and wearing a beard during the last year.
The family once had a Ramadan-style alarm clock "siren" to wake them in the morning.
One neighbour said: "It's a beautiful big house.
"Five years ago it had become derelict and there were squatters in there.
"Then Southwark Council came, spent loads of money on it, and moved this lot in from Iraq.
"It's huge."
Esayed came to Britain from Mosul, Iraq around eight years ago.
His father was a member of the Iraqi military who had fled the country during the rule of Saddam Hussain in 1999 leaving his family behind.
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When Esayed eventually came here he enrolled at Walworth Academy, Southwark, where he won a Design Museum Prize for creating a new version of tiddlywinks.
A second neighbour said: "They used to have this alarm in the mornings which sounded like something from Ramadan.
"It was a real pain. It went off at 4am - this piercing call to prayers would float through the silent dawn air.
"Then the other morning I heard shouts of 'police, police!' And I saw they had the whole place surrounded."
Esayed was bailed on Thursday night after being quizzed over a religiously aggravated offence.
Last night teams of detectives were still combing over the house.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "A 19-year-old man arrested in south-east London on suspicion of a religiously aggravated offence in relation to a separate matter has been bailed to a date in mid-October pending further enquires."
A 20-year-old man arrested for terror offences in a separate raid in west London has been bailed while his 19-year-old brother remains in custody.