18 Year Old British-Sikh girl Plotted To Join ISIS In Syria, Arrested
An 18-year-old British-Sikh girl, who converted to Islam as a teenager, tried to trick her school teacher into counter-signing photographs for a passport application to be able to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State terror network (ISIS).
Sandeep Samra, the 18 year old girl claims she wanted to help the terrorist group by working as a nurse, Birmingham Crown Court was told this week.
Samra has pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts by attempting to travel to war-torn Syria between June 1 and July 31 last year. She was arrested last year as she attempted to acquire a new passport.
“I want to go, Inshallah (God willing) if it’s still possible — at least our nurses can help soldiers and stuff, I really want to go,” she said in one of her online messages presented in court.
Samra applied for her first passport in September 2015 but it was handed to the police by her father a month later after teachers became concerned and reported.
“I need a passport. If infidels know you support, they take your passport. Britain is very strict,” a message found on her phone read.
“We can see the people with whom Miss Samra was communicating — we appear to have six respondents (in 2015) and also six in 2017,” prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse told the court, adding that Samra also discussed marriage with multiple extremists.
Her social media messages show she was “going for death” and intended to die for ISIS, said sources.
Following her arrest, the court heard that she told a friend: “I don’t want to go back to that college, I want to slap that teacher man, I trusted her.”
“They are all snitches; my mum thinks I support jihad. You have got to be Muslim to support jihad. If my dad traces me, I am dead.”
-PTC News
