Former school dinner lady planned to join IS
A former school dinner lady has been found guilty of terrorism offences after she planned to travel to join the Islamic State. Farishta Jami, 36, was convicted of two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorism.
A jury heard she was planning to travel to Daesh in Afghanistan to martyr herself and four children. Jami saved £1,200 to pay for one-way flights to join Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), the Mirror reports.
Leicester Crown Court heard that when detectives searched her property, they seized several devices; sim cards in a bag stuffed down the side of her bed; cash hidden away; and also found Jami trying to conceal passports.
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She shared graphic and violent extremist material on social media, the court heard. Jami researched weaponry and gathered information in relation to the assembly and disassembly of an AK47 rifle. She also had around 7,000 videos stored, several of which showed children being used as suicide bombers.
Her sentencing should have taken place this week, but was adjourned so a pre-sentence report could be prepared by the probation service.
Superintendent Darren Webster, head of specialist operations for Warwickshire Police, said: "This was a complex case interlinking terrorism and serious criminal offences, and we welcome the outcome. Jami's actions had the potential for real-world implications, and the harm they could have caused cannot be underestimated. Thankfully, with an excellent partnership between West Midlands Counter Terrorism Police and ourselves, we were able to prevent this."
Police issued a second mugshot of Jami after she complained the first picture showed her without a head covering. Police released a fresh custody image of Jami wearing a niqab.
Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she could not make an order and left it to the media to decide which image to use in publications.
Jami was born in Afghanistan and moved to the UK in 2008 to live with her husband, the court was told. They lived in a city in the North West, but she moved south in 2023 after the marriage turned violent.
She will now be sentenced on a date to be fixed.
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