(ITV) A self-employed businessman sent more than $600 to his nephew who considered becoming a suicide bomber after he was shot while fighting in Syria, a court has heard.
Farhad Mohammad, 45, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of making five money transfers for Idris Usman in Syria.
At the time, it is alleged Idris was an Islamist fighter, most likely for Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a proscribed terrorist organisation linked to Al Qaida.
The prosecution claim that between May 2017 and January 2018, Mohammad made three Western Union transfers of $200 via a middleman in Turkey and two more transactions while he was abroad.
Details surfaced in a Facebook chat found on his mobile phone following his arrest at Stansted Airport in February 2018, the Old Bailey was told.
