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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. | 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, from Serbia, 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Police seized the Serbian student's laptop and phone and found pictures, videos and documents revealing his "extremist sympathies", the Old Bailey heard. | |
Prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse QC said one video clip on his phone, of a man's throat being cut, was "so graphic and so shocking" it could not be played in court. | |
She said a man, "probably Souaan", could be heard in the background of a video he had filmed at a demonstration saying: "The flag of Tawheed in London, all praise be to Allah the lord of the universe." | |
This was said by the prosecution to be a reference to the wish of extremists to see the black flag of Islamic State militants flying over Downing Street. | |
Sentencing him to be detained in a young offenders institution, Judge Peter Rook told Souaan his case was at the lower end of the scale but nevertheless serious. |