Woman who took toddler son to join Islamic State jailed in UK

A woman who took her toddler son to Syria to join Islamic State (IS) has been jailed for six years.

Woman who took toddler son to join Islamic State jailed in UK

Tareena Shakil posed the little boy for pictures wearing an IS-branded balaclava in what a judge described as one of the most “abhorrent” features of the case, after she secretly ran away to the self-declared caliphate in October 2014.

After a two-week Birmingham Crown Court trial which finished on Friday, the British 26-year-old was convicted of membership of Isis, and of encouraging acts of terror in Twitter posts made before she travelled.

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