Women Sentenced To Six Years After Returning From Syria With Her Son With Intention To Join ISIS

Tareena Shakil, 26, a British woman who took her son with her to Syria to join ISIS, but fled back was sentenced to six years in jail. Tareena was sentenced to jail for encouraging others to join the Islamic state and also being a member of the group.

Tareena on October 2014, took her one year old son to Turkey, then crossed to Syria. But three months after joining the group, she took a taxi from Raqqa to the Turkish border and return to Britain. She was picked up by counter terrorism police in Heathrow airport in February 2015, and her son had since been taken into social care.

                        

Tareeena had denied the allegations levied against her and said she had only travelled to Syria because she wanted to live under Islamic law, but had not encouraged or condone any act of terrorism as claimed by the security agencies.

Prosecutors have claimed that the photos on her phone showed her posing with a gun and her son with a hat bearing the ISIS logo on it. 

Delivering his judgement, Mr Justice Inman said that Tareena had showed no remorse;

Most alarmingly you took your toddler son to Syria knowing how he would be used - his future would be as an IS fighter,you allowed him to be photographed next to an AK47.

You were well aware that the future which you had subjected your son to was very likely to be indoctrination and thereafter life as a terrorist fighter.

West Midlands police said that Shakil had become part of the ISIS group, and was planning to be a Jihadi bride. According to West Midlands police, 300 Britons are said to be fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria. 56 women and girls were reported to have gone missing and are reported to have gone to join ISIS.