Three men found guilty of helping teenage jihadi travel from UK to Syria

Three young British men have been found guilty of encouraging and helping a 17-year-old boy to join Islamic State by supplying him with money, equipment, expertise and contacts.

Aseel Muthana, from Cardiff, followed in the footsteps of his older brother, Nasser, and their friend Reyaad Khan, when he slipped out of the UK and travelled to Syria to join Isis in February 2014.

Nasser Muthana and Khan achieved notoriety when they appeared in an Isis recruitment video called There Is No life Without Jihad, and Khan was killed last year in a RAF drone strike.

The trial of the three accomplices at the Old Bailey in London, has given an insight into how young men like the Muthana brothers and Khan are able to reachSyria.

The jury was told that Kristen Brekke, from Cardiff, Adeel Ulhaq, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and Forhad Rahman, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, all helped Muthana in different ways.