Anthony Small, 34, formerly of Southend Lane, was found guilty of three counts of fraud after an Old Bailey trial

Anthony Small, 34, who was cleared of terror charges earlier this year, had denied three counts of fraud relating to parking fines and a false document but was found guilty.

Small, formerly of Southend Lane, dodged parking tickets going back to 2010 and 2011, racking up a bill worth thousands of pounds after illegally parking a motorbike.

The former British and Commonwealth light middleweight champion gave false names to the DVLA in respect of his red BMW C1 motorbike, and produced a fake insurance certificate when retrieving a Mazda car from the Charlton impound in 2012.

After a successful sporting career with 86 amateur fights and a further 24 professional bouts, Small began trading cars and motorbikes for extra cash.

He claimed he went into business with a Tony Beckford in used car sales, and also said he was one of the two registered keepers of the bike in question, the other a man named Gavin Andison.

MORE TOP STORIES The prosecution, led by Meyrick Williams, alleged these were fictitious people.

But Small maintained he sold the bike to Mr Andison, and then bought it back at a knockdown price to recoup some debt.

He then parked it on what he said he thought was private land, before finding it had been impounded twice.

Small also claimed a forged insurance document was given to him by a man named Ricardo, who continued to drive the Mazda car after selling it to Small.

But it took the jury less than a day to reach their verdict on Muslim-convert Small, who gave evidence dressed all in black.

The current jury was not told of his trial into serious terrorism charges.

This was the fourth time the fraud charges had gone to trial – on one previous occasion a jury failed to reach a verdict and two others were disrupted by his terror charges.

Anthony Small

He spent eight months in Belmarsh on remand with his two co-accused after they were found in the back of a lorry in Dover.

In July he was found not guilty of trying to sell his old boxing shorts and gloves to raise funds to join ISIS in Syria.

He was also acquitted of supporting a proscribed organisation and disseminating terror publications.

Giving evidence at the Old Bailey on Thursday (November 26), Small claimed he was the victim of “systemic police harassment”.

He said police previously searched his house and confiscated every piece of electrical equipment.

The father-of-one added one piece of software alone was worth more than £70,000. Small said: “I’m sitting on my sofa in handcuffs with my 18-month-old son looking at me like ‘what’s going on’.

“I’m obviously seeing them bagging up my electrical goods, what does my computer, my phone, got to with parking documents?”

He was remanded on bail until sentencing on January 8.