Prison for Islamist who faked his death
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A Briton who helped an Islamist group in Syria record videos of severed heads and then faked his own death in the hope of being able to return home undetected was sentenced to 12 years in jail yesterday.
Imran Khawaja, 27, of Southall, west London, traveled to a training camp in Syria in January last year and joined Rayat al Tawheed, which became aligned with Islamic State.
Prosecutors said the group began posting violent propaganda online in an attempt to persuade others to join them.
“Khawaja was seen in a disturbing video posted on social media which includes a bag of severed heads,” a police statement said after sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court.
“He appears in the footage with his face covered picking up one of the heads from the bag and showing it to the camera,” it said.
In May, the group put out a message on social media claiming he had been killed “in order to conceal his entry back into the UK,” said Commander Richard Walton, head of the SO15 Counter Terrorism Command.
Khawaja was arrested last June at the port town of Dover.
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