Nadeem Hussain sent £4,000 in April last year in three chunks
A Coventry man has been jailed for sending thousands of pounds to his jihadi brother who is fighting for Islamic extremists in Syria.
Nadeem Hussain sent a total of £4,000 via wire transfers to help fund his brother, Naweed Hussain, who travelled to the conflict zone in June 2015 to fight with Daesh.
Nadeem Hussain, 36, from Threadneedle Street, Foleshill, previously pleaded guilty to three counts of being concerned in arrangements to make money available for the purposes of terrorism.
He was jailed for four years and eight months at Kingston Crown Court in London today.
The cash was sent via a money transfer bureau in Coventry over a period of three days in April 2016.
Hussain was originally arrested and bailed by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit in January 2016 following searches by officers at a number of addresses in Coventry.
The searches were in connection with his brother’s departure.
He was further detained on suspicion of a separate criminal matter in April 2016. As a result his phone was seized by officers, who found evidence of financial transactions to his sibling.
These included screenshots of post-it notes showing receipts of the money transfers and names of people abroad to transfer the money to.
Other images seized from phones include pictures of what are believed to be Naweed Hussain engaged with Daesh fighters in the conflict zone and images relating to Islamic State ideology.
Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale, who leads on counter-terrorism for the West Midlands, said: “Disrupting terrorist funding is an important part of our investigations.
“Sending money to those actively engaged in terrorism helps fund their activities and exacerbates the threat. We will continue to act on any intelligence and disrupt the flow of money to conflict zones.
“Anyone who knows of someone who may be potentially vulnerable to being drawn into terrorist-related activity, including travelling abroad to conflict zones should contact local police for advice and support on 101.”
"From Foleshill" or "of Foleshill? There's a difference. And if he's not "from Foleshill" why doesn't the Telegraph tell us where he's really from?
