A former grammar school student has pleaded guilty to travelling to Syria to join ISIS nine years ago.
Shabazz Suleman, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was 19 when he disappeared while on a family holiday to Turkey in 2014.pupil was arrested at Heathrow airport on September 29 2021 and charged with a string of terror offences.
Referring to the defendant’s basis of plea, Judge Mark Lucraft KC agreed and noted Suleman had gone to join IS ‘even if not becoming a member of it’. Suleman, who wore a blue suit, with a white shirt and yellow tie, had entered his guilty plea in the dock of the Old Bailey. In an interview with The Times newspaper, he said he had become disillusioned with jihadism and chose to desert the terrorist group.
Suleman claims he was just a civilian and never swore allegiance to the terror group, and tried to leave IS territory in 2015 after becoming disillusioned with the jihadi lifestyle
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