A Lewisham mosque scout leader is to receive a payout from a national newspaper which falsely claimed he was being investigated by police for having extremist links.

The Telegraph issued a second apology to Ahammed Hussain on Tuesday, clarifying that he did not promote extremist or antisemitic views in his role at Lewisham Islamic Centre as it had claimed in two January 2019 articles.

The newspaper claims it "acted in good faith on information received", but accepted the claims were defamatory, agreeing to pay Mr Hussein damages and costs.

The apology reads: "We accept Ahammed Hussain did not conduct himself in the ways suggested, that at no point did the police investigate him, and that it is not in breach of Scouts Association rules to separate the children by gender and that Ahammed Hussain did not breach Scout rules.

"Further, the articles said that Ahammed Hussain had links to extremist Muslim Groups that promoted terrorism and anti-Semitism, and could have suggested that he supported those views and encouraged their dissemination. We now accept that this was wrong and that Mr Hussain has never supported or promoted terrorism, or been anti-Semitic."

Representatives of the mosque wholly denied the allegations on their publication, which were repeated in The Times, Daily Mail and Daily Star.

The Telegraph further claimed that the centre segregates its scout groups by gender.