British Isil fighter who was given as much as £1m compensation by the Government after he was released from Guantanamo Bay spent £220,000 on a family house. Jamal al-Harith, 50, bought the semi in a quiet Stockport street in April 2011, just three years before he fled to Syria to join Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil). Al-Harith, a Muslim convert born Ronald Fiddler who detonated a car bomb at an Iraqi army base near Mosul, was released from the US detention camp in 2004 and successfully claimed compensation after saying British agents knew or were complicit in his mistreatment. Pictures taken from an estate agent's website show the house at the time he bought it. The house has reportedly been empty since al-Harith went abroad to fight with Isil. Pictures taken from an estate agent's website from the time of when he bought the house show a large, His family said the claimed figure of £1 million was wide of the mark and referred to a group settlement made to four ex-detainees - including al-Harith - and included their costs. They blamed his treatment at Guantanamo Bay, where he was held by the Americans, for his subsequent involvement with IS. The statement said: "The Jamal they knew up until 2001 when he was taken to Guantanamo Bay would not have become involved with a despicable organisation such as so-called IS. "He was a peaceful and gentle person. "Whatever he may or may not have done since then they believe from their own experience he was utterly changed by the physical and mental cruelty and the inhuman treatment he endured for two years at Guantanamo."