UK pharmacist jailed after showing children beheading video

A UK pharmacist has been jailed for six years for disseminating 'terrorist propaganda' after showing two children a beheading video.

(File Image) Islamic State militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah in March 2014.

About 100 Islamic State fighters have surrendered in Syria's Raqqa in the last 24 hours, according to US-led coalition forces. Pictured is a file image. Source: AAP, AP

A British pharmacist who claimed IS militants were "not bad people" has been jailed for six years after he was convicted of showing a beheading video to a young child.

Zameer Ghumra "brainwashed" two primary school-age youngsters, instructing them to not have non-Muslim friends and asking if they wanted to join the terrorist group or help recruit others to its ranks.

The 38-year-old was convicted at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday of disseminating "terrorist propaganda" in the form of a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone between January 2013 and September 2014.

Ghumra, was sentenced in the same court on Friday.

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Published 7 October 2017 6:28am
Updated 7 October 2017 10:01am


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