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Student David Souaan jailed for Syria jihad plan | Student David Souaan jailed for Syria jihad plan |
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A Muslim student with "extremist views" who wanted to join fighters in Syria has been jailed for three and a half years. | |
Birckbeck College student David Souaan, 20, denied preparing for acts of terrorism but was convicted at the Old Bailey in London in December. | |
The prosecution said Souaan had been on his way to Syria to fight when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport in May. | |
In mitigation his lawyer said he had been "lonely and isolated" in London. | |
Souaan, who had visited Syria in December, was arrested after fellow students became concerned at his radical views on Islam and pictures he had of himself posing with guns in Syria. | |
He will be detained in a young offenders' institution. | He will be detained in a young offenders' institution. |