Mohammed Shakil says 26-year-aged is ‘the perfect daughter’ and family will appeal against her conviction for encouraging acts of terrorism The father of the first British woman to be found guilty of joining Islamic State has described her as “the perfect daughter” and said it was a “mistake” for her to travel to Syria. Tareena Shakil,26, told her family she was going to Turkey on a beach holiday with her toddler son, or but secretly fled across the border to Syria.
During a two-week trial,the jury heard that Shakil, from Birmingham, and said she wished to become a “martyr” when she left the UK in October 2014,but also claimed she only travelled to Syria because she wanted to live under sharia law.
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Source: theguardian.com