Sister smuggled sim cards to extremist prisoner jailed for murder

(ITV) A woman who helped smuggle mobile phones to her extremist brother in prison has been jailed for six months.

Rahimah De Silva, 24, had also plotted with her brother, Denny De Silva, to transport sim cards and chargers into HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, between August 2020 and January 2021.

While serving life for murder, Denny De Silva used the phones to access and disseminate Islamist extremist material, police said.

After an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), Rahimah De Silva, from Luton in Bedfordshire, admitted conspiring to convey List B articles into prison and was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday.

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