The cousin of two sisters who fled their Manchester home to join Islamic State is facing jail for helping a friend go to Syria to fight jihad.
A-level student Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Farah, 20, created a “hub of communication” from his mother’s home in Manchester for his “Mandem” group of like-minded extremists.
Following a trial at the Old Bailey he was found guilty of preparing for terrorist acts by helping Nur Hassan, 19, also from Manchester, achieve his aim of travelling to Syria to fight.
It can now be reported that Jama Farah is related to Zhara and Salma Halane, who at the age of 16 left their home in Chorlton, Manchester, in June 2014 and are believed to have married Isis fighters.
The prosecutor Gareth Patterson had told jurors it was clear that Jama Farah supported Isis from what was found on his computers as well as messages on WhatsApp and social media. Patterson said he performed an “important role as the hub of communication” in the UK.
Jama Farah, who is Danish and of Somali origin, was in communication with four other friends abroad, two of whom are believed to have been killed and another badly injured in fighting.
His cousin Ahmed Ibrahim Halane, known as Pie, from Manchester, went to Somalia in September 2013, where he is thought to have joined the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab.
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