A west London teenager who edited video game footage to show ISIS soldiers and posted it on YouTube has been jailed.
Mohammed Khilji, 19, posted the video of "Battlefield", a computer game, but altered it so that there was a terrorist battle song playing in the background and quotes from ISIS propaganda material.
The video caught the attention of Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command officers, who started their investigation into the teenager and raided his home address on July 4, 2017.
After forensically searching his phone and computer, police said that officers found he had been sharing graphic videos calling for violence against non-Muslims as well as videos of ISIS operatives beheading soldiers. He also shared a video of the Westminster Bridge terror attack, which then offered advice on making a vehicle-based bomb.
Khilji was charged with eight counts of encouraging terrorism in relation to these videos.
Detectives also found selfies of Khilji posing with one finger in the air, a well-known ISIS salute, in front of the terrorist organisation's black flag. He captioned some of these photos with statements such as “going kaffur hunting”. "Kaffur" is Arabic for unbelievers, or non-Muslims.
Although he wasn't charged in relation to the Battlefield video or the selfies, they were shown to Kingston Crown Court as evidence of his mindset and sympathies. He was sentenced on Thursday (June 7) for five years, after he was found guilty by the jury on all eight counts of encouraging terrorism.
