A British mother who took her toddler son to Syria, has been found guilty of membership of so-called Islamic State.
The 26-year-old boarded a plane to Turkey in October 2014 with her one-year-old boy, crossed the border into Syria and spent three months there, West Midlands police said in a statement.
Ultimately, she said, she left for Syria because of an "unhappy" family life, but, "I came back of my own free will. I came back because I realized I had made a mistake". Police also said she had sent a series of tweets before she left Britain, encouraging others to commit terror acts.
During her trial, Shakil denied the charges, claiming she only travelled to Syria because she wanted to live under strict Islamic law.
Counter-terrorism detectives arrested her at Heathrow Airport and her child was taken into care.
It took the jury of six men and six women nine hours and 35 minutes to reach their decision, and when they did it was unanimous. In the weeks leading up to her departure, Ms. Shakil had become an ever more vocal online supporter of Islamic State online, said prosecutors.
"Photographs seized from her phone showed Ms Shakil posing with a firearm and wearing a Daesh balaclava".
Former psychology student Shakil travelled to Syria after an ISIS fighter she was talking to on Facebook named Fabio Pocas said she would go to Jehannam (hell) if she stayed in the United Kingdom - the land of the non-believers.
She had admitted travelling to Syria.
After arriving in Gazientep, Turkey, an ISIS contact she had been talking to on Twitter - known as Abu T - arranged for her passage into Jarabulus, Syria, on October 24 and transportation to the terror group's "capital" of Raqqa five days later.
Shakil, from Birmingham, claimed she had been groomed by Isis recruiters, who targeted her when she was low because of the break-up of her marriage in the UK.
During the trial the jury also heard that about 60 British females were thought to have gone to Syria.
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