Man jailed for sharing Islamic State propaganda near Windsor Castle

Tuesday 02nd January 2018 17:45 EST
 

A young Sainsbury's shop assistant is facing jail for sharing Islamic State propaganda on WhatsApp - including a video filmed near Windsor Castle.

Iftikhar Ali was aged 18, and living at home with his parents, at the time he sent extremist material on his mobile phone.

He denied 12 counts of disseminating a terrorist document and one of possessing a document likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism.

But following a trial at the Old Bailey, Ali, now 19, was found guilty of all the charges.

Ali was friends with convicted terrorist Taha Hussain, who was filmed driving past Windsor Castle shouting "Allahu akbar" and "burn in hell".

Hussain, 21, from Berkshire, knew London Bridge attacker Khuram Butt and was jailed for four and a half years in September, for disseminating terrorist documents on social media.

In December 2015, Ali had been identified by the Prevent team but he failed to engage with them. He was arrested on March 10 last year over a payment of £140 via Western Union to a man in Turkey, which he claimed in police interviews was for "charitable purposes".

Examination of his mobile phone revealed Ali had an avid interest in IS with material including audio files of radical preacher Anwar al Awlaki, and images of executions as well as Hussain's Windsor video.


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