A Northern Irish mother of three who wanted to bring her children up under the so-called Islamic State militant group in Syria has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in the UK.
Lorna Moore, originally from Omagh in Co Tyrone, was brought up as a Protestant but converted to Islam in 2002.
The 34-year-old was planning to take her three young children to the war zone - including an 11-month-old baby.
Around the same time, a number of pregnant women from the same community were poised to give birth in the self-pronounced Caliphate.
Moore, from Walsall, West Midlands, failed to tell authorities her husband Sajid Aslam, 34, was about to leave for Syria.
Ayman Shaukat, 28, was also convicted of preparing terrorist acts by helping Aslam and Muslim convert Alex Nash, 22, on their way.
Kerry Thomason, 24, was pregnant when she was stopped from flying out with her two children to join her husband in Syria.
Sentencing at the Old Bailey, Judge Charles Wide described Moore as a âvery strong characterâ and said she âknew perfectly well of your husbandâs dedication to terrorismâ.
âOne of the troubling things about you is your facility for telling lies,â he added.
He said Moore had told âlie after lieâ to the jury during her trial and that some of her evidence was ânonsenseâ.
She was sentenced to two years and six monthsâ imprisonment.
Shaukat was jailed for a total of ten years with a five-year extended licence while Nash was jailed for five years with a one-year additional licence.
Judge Wide said Shaukat was âcommittedâ and Nash âdedicatedâ to terrorism.
He described Thomason as ânaiveâ and said her husband made âugly threatsâ against her in trying to persuade her to join him.
She was sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for two years with a supervision order and six-month tagged curfew between 6pm and 6am.
At the time of Aslamâs departure in August 2014, Moore had taken the rest of the family on a Butlinâs holiday in Skegness.
The day after dropping him off at the airport, Shaukat sent a photograph of himself on his mobile phone posing with the IS flag.
As Aslam crossed into Syria, he sent a triumphant coded message back to Shaukat in the form of a video link to a song called I Made It by Cash Money Heroes.
Within months, Moore had booked flights to Palma, Majorca, but her final destination was given away in a text from Nashâs pregnant wife in Turkey saying âsee you thereâ.
Moore insisted she would âneverâ put her childrenâs lives in danger, adding: âThey mean the world to me.â
She claimed her relationship with Aslam ended after he became abusive and they only lived together for the sake of the children who are now aged three, nine and ten.
She told jurors that when she turned to a Muslim cleric for a divorce, he told her that a âwhite Muslim is not a special Muslimâ and she must take her husband back.
Shaukat, of Pargeter Street, Walsall, denied helping his friends join IS by dropping Aslam and Nash off at airports.
The convicted burglar and law degree graduate was nicknamed Karma Chameleon because he presented different versions of himself to jurors and his home in the Caldmore area in Walsall is known locally as Karma.
He described IS as âevilâ and said he told MI5 he would âassist in any way I couldâ after agents contacted him as treasurer of the community group Islam Walsall.
Other members of the West Midlands group allegedly set off for Syria between July and December 2014.
The first to join IS was Muslim convert Jake Petty, 25, also known as Abu Yaqoob Britany.
His Christian minister mother Sue Boyce wept as she told jurors how she begged him not to go and later had to identify his body from video footage on social media after he was killed in December 2014.
Petty was swiftly followed by former schoolmate Isaiah Siadatan, 24, whose pregnant wife Thomason was prevented from joining him.
He had sent her an email in December 2014 insisting that she should bring their children to him in IS.
Siadatan is believed to have been killed in the summer of 2015, although his death is unconfirmed.
Thomason previously pleaded guilty to assisting her husband in preparation of his terrorist acts.
Nash and his pregnant wife Yousma Jan, 20, were arrested by Turkish authorities and sent back to the UK.
He took sole responsibility for the plan and admitted preparing acts of terrorism, while a charge against Jan was discontinued.
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standard enough fare really here, couple of lads walking into a cafe and shot a bunch of people
id expect the reaction to be âmeasuredâ as always
hard to know what triggered this as it is Ramadan and Israel had opened up Jerusalem for pilgrims to Al Aqsa so its bad timing, depending on the motive of course
it could be a reaction as well to Libermanâs appointment as minister of defense , that was a disastrous move for al concerned as Hamas know that an incident like this will kick off an exagarated israeli reaction whcih may be what they wanted ( he will be going at it with gusto as its his first week in the job) and so the cycle will beginâŚ,⌠again⌠other theories are of course it may even be some right wing loon trying to provoke Libermann, or even set up by Libermann itself, it deffo wasnt haredim jews as they only shoot gay lads and this isnt their scene.
My money is its some Palestinian faction of Hamas who are trying to up the ante after the stabbing attacks died downâŚ
there ll be fucking carnage now id say