(RTÉ) Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith has begun an appeal against the severity of her 15-month jail sentence for membership of the Islamic State terrorist organisation.
Senior counsel Michael O’ Higgins submitted that the sentence was “too high” and that Smith was not given enough credit for the mitigating factors.
These included the fact that she was the mother of a child whose father was deceased, spent time in custody already, the conditions in the Al-Hawl camp, the assistance she gave to the prosecution and her co-operation with gardaí.
