Kabir Ahmed reportedly smashed an bomb-laden truck into a police convoy
A British jihadist convicted of gay hate crimes "blew himself up in an ISIS suicide mission" in Iraq killing eight people, according to reports.
Kabir Ahmed, 30, allegedly drove a truck laden with explosives into a convoy of police in the town of Beiji, north of Baghdad, killing himself, a top ranking police officer and seven other officers.
He also injured 15 other people.
Senior Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalism at King's College London, Shiraz Maher, posted on Twitter three pictures of Mr Ahmed, who called himself Abu Sumayyah, and claimed he is the suicide bomber.
He posted: "This makes two British suicide bombers in the Syria/Iraq conflict. First was Abu Sulaiman for Jabhat al-Nusrah, now Abu Sumayyah for IS."
"British suicide bomber in Iraq, Abu Sumayyah (Kabir Ahmed) originally joined Jund al-Sham in Syria and then moved to Islamic State.
"Abu Sumayyah (Kabir Ahmed), British suicide bomber in Iraq, was 32, married, and had children."
Mr Ahmed previously told BBC's Panorama that he wanted to become a "suicide bomber".
The married father-of-one was twice convicted of gay hate crimes in Derby.
In February 2012, he became one of the first citizens in the UK to be given a 15-month sentence for distributing homophobic leaflets.
Ahmed was one of three men who were jailed for handing out leaflets calling for gay people to be executed.
They distributed a document called “The Death Penalty” that showed an image of a mannequin hanging from a noose and quoting Islamic texts which claimed that capital punishment was the only way to eradicate homosexuality from society.
He was convicted of distributing threatening written material intended to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation - the first prosecution of its kind since new laws were introduced in 2010.
Ahmed was interviewed by BBC’s Panorama programme last July in which he confessed to being a jihadist fighting with IS in Syria.
He said: “Everybody has got their name on the list to become a suicide bomber and everyone is forcing the Amir to push their name up. Everyone wants to fight for the sake of Allah.
“If the British government commits terror against our people, is unjust towards our people, kills and murders and rapes our people then you can expect attacks on your soil.
“If you don’t leave our Muslim brothers around the globe and mind your own business and support our enemies against us then you can expect these attacks and so can America and so can any other country.”
He was also part of a 30-strong mob of Muslim protesters who carried anti-homosexual placards during the Derby’s Gay Pride parade in August 2011.
Ahmed attended Derby Moor School before studying media studies at Wilmorton College in the city and spent two years studying at the University of East London.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Iraq and are looking into them."
The blast on Friday, which killed police officer Lt. Gen. Faisal Malik al-Zamel, was thought to have been planned because al-Zamel had been leading the ongoing battle to rid Beiji, which is located in Salahuddin, of IS fighters who swept into the city last summer.