Woman guilty of encouraging terror acts

She was also found guilty of encouraging acts of terror on social media. During her trial, Shakil denied the charges, claiming she only travelled to Syria because she wanted to live under strict Islamic law.

Shakil, from Birmingham, said she had been groomed by Isis recruiters, who targeted her when she was low because of the breakup of her marriage in the UK.

Tareena Shakil posed her boy for pictures wearing an IS-branded balaclava after secretly running away to Syria in October 2014.

Shakil, who was working on a two-year hospitality management degree at the London School of Business and Finance, used a $1,700 loan payout to buy plane tickets for herself and her toddler son.

A photograph uncovered by police showed her posing in Syria underneath an IS flag.

She was later found guilty of becoming a part of the terrorist group ISIS at the Birmingham Crown Court, Jan. 29. “She had absolutely clear intentions when she left the United Kingdom, sending tweets encouraging the public to commit acts of terrorism here and then taking her young child to join Daesh (ISIS) in Syria”.

Shakil’s father reacted angrily to his daughter’s sentence outside court, pretending to punch a cameraman and shouting that he hoped no other woman would come back “to face this kind of b*******”. “And I don’t want sympathy for that, because it was my decision to go there”.

– A judge has sentenced a British woman to six years in prison for going to Syria to live under the rule of the Islamic State group.

The mom of one claimed she didn’t believe reports of ISIS’ savage violence before she traveled to Syria, but once she saw the danger first-hand, she fled home.

“If she was that much of a mastermind and she left her phone behind, no-one could have even said she was there”.

After his divorce in 2011 they got married, but he was violent when he drank and forced Shakil to drop out of her course as he was jealous of other men. He added that she “presented a real threat” to Britain upon her return.