Friday, 29 January 2016

Tareena Shakil: 'I don’t want sympathy … it was my decision to go to Syria'

She was a bright, successful student who loved reality television shows and bands like the Spice Girls. Friends of Tareena Shakil describe her as fun-loving and caring young woman while her family have said they did not consider her particularly religious.
Over the past few weeks, a jury at Birmingham crown court has heard the extraordinary story of how Shakil, a 26-year-old health worker, struck up online friendships with members of Islamic State before travelling with her young child to Syria via Turkey.
On Friday, that same jury found her guilty of being an Isis member and encouraging acts of terror on social media.

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