(BBC) A “misguided” father-of-two who sent US dollars to a nephew who was fighting for an Islamist terrorist group in Syria has been given a community sentence.
Restaurant worker Farhad Mohammad, [46], from Colchester, made payments totalling $350 (£270) suspecting his relative was actively involved in terrorism for the proscribed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) organisation, prosecutors said.
Mohammad had been arrested by counter-terrorism police when trying to board a plane to Turkey from London Stansted Airport in February 2018.
He had been found guilty of two offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and was given a three-year community sentence at the Old Bailey in London.
