British teacher jailed for trying to join IS

Published March 6, 2015
Jamshed Javeed
Jamshed Javeed

LONDON: A chemistry teacher was jailed for six years in Britain on Thursday for trying to join Islamic State jihadists fighting in Syria, against the wishes of his family who desperately tried to stop him.

Jamshed Javeed, 30, one of a group of radicalised Muslims from Manchester in northwest England, was arrested in December 2013 as he was about to travel to the Middle East — after helping his younger brother and three others make the same trip.

At the high-security Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London, judge Michael Topolski said Javeed was “adherent to a violent jihadist mindset” and should be considered “dangerous”.

Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2015

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