TOWIE-loving mum JAILED for six years for fleeing to join ISIS with son

A MUM who ran away to Syria with her toddler son to join ISIS has been jailed.

 

  SWNS/ PA JAILED: Mum Tareena Shakil has been jailed for six years for fleeing to join ISIS with

 baby boy

 

Tareena Shakil, 26, from Birmingham, fled to Syria with her toddler son in October 2014 and was taken to the capital of the caliphate in Raqqa.

During her two-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court, the jury were shown tweets, messages and photographs from her, including images of the black flag of death cult – also known as Daesh.

Passages were also read out from Shakil calling on people to "take up arms" and stating her wish to become a "martyr".

Photographs recovered from Shakil's phone showed images of her wearing an ISIS balaclava, and posing with firearms.

However she claimed she posed her baby son in an ISIS balaclava because he “loved hats”.

The snap was taken while she was living at an ISIS-controlled mansion in Raqqa, Syria, where she lived with 40 would-be jihadi brides.

Sentencing the former college student, Judge Melbourne Inman said: "You embraced ISIS, you sent messages on the day of your arrival in Syria that you were not coming back.

"By October 28 you were sending a message to your brother-in-law that it was part of your faith to kill the murtadeen (apostates) and on December 9 you told your father you wanted to die a martyr."

 

FLEE: Tareena Shakil travelled to Syria with her 14-month-old son

 

After becoming radicalised online she used a student loan to pay for plane tickets from East Midlands Airport the following month.

The jury had heard Shakil, formerly of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs, told her family she was going to Turkey for a beach holiday with her young son but secretly travelled across the border into Syria after wishing to live under Sharia Law.

During the trial she told the court she returned to the UK in February last year after realising she had "made a mistake" and was arrested at Heathrow Airport.

The Recorder of Birmingham, sentencing, added: "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."

BRIGHT: Tareena achieved eight GCSE's and three A-Levels as a student

 

Shakil's father reacted angrily to his daughter's sentence outside court.

He pretended to punch a cameraman and shouted that he hoped no other woman would come back "to face this kind of b*******".

During the trial Shakil denied joining the terror group and encouraging support for ISIS on her Facebook and Twitter accounts.

She claimed she was a “silly, naive girl” who had been kidnapped by an Arab man but a jury dismissed her “fantasy story”.