The cousin of self-styled teenage terror twins has been jailed for setting up an ISIS communications hub using WhatsApp in his bedroom in Longsight.
From his mother’s home in Manchester, Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Farah, now 20, created the “hub of communication” for his “Mandem” group of like-minded extremists in 2013.
Following a trial at the Old Bailey, the defendant was found guilty of preparing for terrorist acts by attempting to facilitate Nur Hassan, 19, from Manchester, to travel to Syria to fight.
Judge Michael Topolski sentenced him to seven years’ detention and a further three years on extended licence. The judge told him that the extent of his radicalisation was “considerable”, saying: “Your support for jihad was global and offensive in nature and not defensive and limited to Syria.”
He highlighted messages in which the defendant referred to beheadings as “lick some heads off” and asking his friends if they were “smacking (killing) guys”.
Jama Farah is the cousin of the so-called “teenager terror twins”, Zhara and Salma Halane, who at the age of 16 left their home in Chorlton in Manchester in June 2014 and are believed to have married ISIS fighters.
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.
