High Wycombe man jailed for travelling to Syria to join IS

(BBC) A man has been jailed for at least nine and a half years for travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group.

Shabazz Suleman, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, was 19 when he disappeared while on a family holiday to Turkey in 2014.

He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in September 2021 and charged with a string of terror offences.

Now 27, he was given the minimum term as part of a life sentence at the Old Bailey.

In April, he pleaded guilty to preparing acts of terrorism by travelling to Turkey in order to join Islamic State (IS) in Syria in August 2014.

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