A former beauty queen and Liverpool WAG jailed for funding terrorism
She sent £35 to a Syrian weapons group
A former beauty queen and Liverpool WAG has been jailed for funding terrorism.
Amaani Noor, who's 21 and from Wavertree, has been handed 18 months behind bars after sending £35 to a Syrian terror group.
The court heard how she wanted to join her now ex-husband in Syria to join IS,
She met jihadist Hakim My Love online.
Her friend Victoria Layla Webster, who's 28 and from Nelson in Lancashire, was jailed for 17 months for sending around £90 to the same Syrian weapons group.
On Noor’s phone, police found evidence of payments to an organisation purporting to be an aid organisation but which evidence indicates is supporting the proscribed organisation, Islamic State.
Conversations between the two revealed both women held extremist views and both expressed support for proscribed terrorist organisations Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Islamic State.
Following their arrests police found videos on both Noor and Websters phones including footage of IS fighters torturing and executing prisoners.
Noor made a payment of $45.51 in May 2018 and Webster made two payments totalling $59.94 between April and August 2018.
“While the amounts of money sent were relatively small; the intent of Noor and Webster was clear..."
Detective Superintendent Will Chatterton of GMP’s Counter Terrorism Unit said: “After her arrest, Noor tried to claim she thought the organisation was a charity benefitting innocent victims of the civil war.
“But the organisation’s messaging made clear their intent to send weapons and equipment to terrorists fighting in Syria.
“The abhorrent footage and messages found upon both Noor’s and Webster’s phones clearly showed both to be sympathetic to terrorist organisations.
“While the amounts of money sent were relatively small; the intent of Noor and Webster was clear: To support and further the aims of terrorists fighting in Syria.
“I hope today’s sentences send a clear message that we gather evidence and pursue prosecutions against anyone who seeks to engage with and support any form of terrorism.”
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