{"id":7124,"date":"2014-12-10T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/jailed-for-terror-charges\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:14:26","slug":"jailed-for-terror-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/jailed-for-terror-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed for Terror Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Men Jailed for Almost 13 Years Each After<\/h3>\n

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Former school friends Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Ahmed, both aged 22, were jailed for 12 years and 8 months at Woolwich Crown Court after they admitted terror charges. They also received an extended five years on license and were informed that they had to serve two thirds of the prison sentence.<\/p>\n


\nSarwar, a former student at Birmingham City University, and unemployed Ahmed both travelled to Syria in 2013 for eight months to fight with Al-Qaida inspired rebel fighters. They were discovered after Sarwar\u2019s mother handed his \u2018goodbye\u2019 letter to anti-terror police. The letter in question read that her son wanted to, \u201cdie as a martyr\u201d.<\/p>\n


\nDuring trial His Honour Judge Michael Topolski praised the actions of Sarwar\u2019s mother saying she showed \u2018considerable courage\u2019 in going to the police.<\/p>\n


\nHe added, \u201cShe showed extraordinarily brave conduct. I can only imagine the pain she was going through when she read that letter.

\n\u201cBut, despite her bravery and concern for her son, I fail to see how I can reflect the benefit to him in reducing sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nUpon sentencing he said, \u201cTheir persistent commitment to terrorism leads me to the sure conclusion that they are dangerous and I should pass an extended sentence.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThey willingly and enthusiastically embarked on a course intending to commit acts of terrorism. The consequences for them are dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn preparation for their journey to Syria the friends allegedly bought books titled \u2018Arabic for Dummies\u2019 and \u2018The Koran for Dummies\u2019 off Amazon. Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, said the two defendants planned the trip as far back as 2012. According to Altman, without the aid of Sarwar\u2019s mother they would not have been able to be ready for the defendants when they returned to the UK or prosecute them.<\/p>\n


\nBoth men had previously denied being involved in acts of terrorism, but changed their pleas before a jury was sworn in at London\u2019s Woolwich Crown Court during the hearing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Men Jailed for Almost 13 Years Each After Former school friends Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Ahmed, both aged 22, were jailed for 12 years and 8 months at Woolwich Crown Court after they admitted terror charges. They also received an extended five years on license and were informed that they had to serve two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}