A teenager who conned
his way into a university, then used his student loan and grants to travel to
Syria to join ISIS has been jailed.
Yahya Rashid, 19,
managed to forge a Btec certificate and get onto a course at Middlesex
University, despite having an IQ of between 65 and 70.
He then used government
cash to pay for himself and four pals from his local mosque in Wembley, North
West London, to travel to the border with Syria in Turkey via Morocco.
But a court heard how
Rashid got cold feet and decided to come back home.
He was arrested on his
return to the UK and found guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation for
committing an act of terrorism, and engaging in conduct with the intention of
assisting others to commit acts of terrorism between November 2014 and March
this year.
He was sentenced to
five years in a young offenders' institution.
Woolwich Crown court
heard how Rashid and his group were stopped and questioned by police at Gatwick
Airport but subsequently allowed to board a flight to Casablanca, from where
they made their way to the Turkish border town of Gaziantep.
-Mirror
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