British aid worker Alan Henning, who was beheaded by IS, travelled to Syria on a convoy linked to extremists, a court has heard.
IS executioner Jihadi John had beheaded Henning, of Salford, Greater Manchester, in 2014.
Henning had travelled to the Middle East in convoys with Syed Hoque and two other men accused of smuggling cash to Syria.
Hoque is one of the four persons being tried at the Old Bailey for allegedly sending thousands of pounds to his nephew Mohammed Choudhury in Syria so that he could buy weapons and other equipment.
The aid convoys were allegedly used as cover to deliver cash and equipment to terrorists, the court has been told.
Thirty-seven-year-old Syed Hoque is from Luton, Bedfordshire.
The court heard that Pervez Rafiq, one of the defendants, had told police that he had been on a convoy, arranged by a charity, with Henning in December 2013, and had taken part in an appeal for his safe return.
Hoque was allegedly aided by a 27-year-old ‘quartermaster’ Mashoud Miah and two other men.
The court had earlier been told that Hoque and Miah had been on an earlier convoy, organised by a charity called Children in Deen, and were carrying ‘substantial amounts of cash’ when they left the country.
Hoque faces three counts of funding terrorism after allegedly providing £3,000 and £1,500 on December 21 2013. With the three other defendants, he also faces a charge that they made material available with a reasonable cause to suspect it was for terrorism between December 1 2012 and May 31 2014.
Hoque, Miah from Mile End, 30-year-old Mohammed Hussain from Mile End and and 46-year-old Pervez Rafiq from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, all deny the charges and the trial continues.
