(Sky News) A former grammar school pupil has pleaded guilty to travelling to Syria to join Islamic State, despite previously claiming he had spent his time there playing computer games.
Shabazz Suleman had just completed his AS-levels at a grammar school in High Wycombe, and had a place to study international relations at university when he vanished while on a family holiday to Turkey in 2014, aged 19.
He later claimed he had volunteered with Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a Turkish non-governmental organisation, before he was arrested by Turkish security forces.
Suleman was then traded to IS as part of a controversial prisoner swap to secure the release of 47 Turkish diplomats captured by IS from their embassy in Mosul, northern Iraq, in November 2014.
