Parviz Khan, born in Derby on October 17 1970, turned from a young man whose main passions were Sunday league football and cricket into a radical jihadi after making several trips to Pakistan.
Raised in Birmingham and married with three young children, Khan's involvement with al-Qaida changed him into a homicidal obsessive who spoke of the July 7 bombers as "brothers".
Arrested just four months after giving his third child the name Usamah, another version of the Arabic name Osama, Khan viewed cigarettes as un-Islamic and was even "training" his three-year-old daughter to marry a Mujahideen fighter.
Despite his willingness to wage war against the British state, Khan was perfectly happy to receive more than £160-a-week from the government as an allowance for caring for his elderly and infirm mother, Taj Begum.
Holding both British and Pakistani passports, the bearded terrorist was codenamed "Motorway Madness" by the security services as authorities spent a total of 8,500 hours collating and translating conversations recorded by a bug inside his £125,000 house on Foxton Road in Alum Rock, Birmingham.
According to the testimony of his co-defendant, Zahoor Iqbal, Khan was a man who in his 20s liked to drink, smoke and go clubbing.
Iqbal said his near-lifelong friend then transformed in his early 30s from a non-practising Muslim into an Islamist fanatic after visiting Pakistan.
"The TV had disappeared in his living room. It was odd," Iqbal recalled.
"He became more anti-west, blaming Britain for the Israel-Palestine issue, Kashmir, civilians dying in Iraq and Afghanistan."
By 2006, after another trip to the subcontinent, Khan's religious views had become more extreme.
Iqbal said: "He was watching a lot of propaganda material, a lot of anti-war material … He had a computer in his front room and he would download and put it on the internet and watch it.
"His views had become very anti-west."
A resident in the Alum Rock area, who did not wish to be named, said Khan appeared a normal community member to those who lived nearby.
The man said: "If you say hello to a neighbour in Poundstretcher and the corner shop, and see him walking around with a baby you think he's just a regular guy.
"It's almost impossible to believe that he was involved in the things he had been caught doing."
Khan feared he would be damned because his only notable achievements were a handful of good performances in the Birmingham Coronation Sunday league.
In a rare moment of soul-searching, the bug in his home recorded Khan apparently telling another man he believed he would be judged a hypocrite in death.
"There is no answer," Khan said. "Brother was a good footballer ... centre midfield ... it's not going to be good enough... not good enough.
"I know if I die now, if I die tonight, if I am not working for Islam full time … pure hypocrite."