‘My client is a foul-mouthed, weed-smoking kaffir but is not a terrorist’

A woman accused of arranging to send €20,000 to her husband fighting in Syria concealed in her friend’s underwear is "foul-mouthed" and a "phone-addicted, weed-smoking kaffir" and an unlikely terrorist, her barrister has told a court.

Amal El-Wahabi, aged 27, allegedly asked her friend Nawal Msaad, also 27, to be a trusted courier and take the cash to Turkey at the request of Aine Davis, known by his Muslim name Hamza.

But Msaad was stopped by police at Heathrow in January before she boarded a flight. She handed over the rolled-up notes hidden in her knickers, the Old Bailey heard.