While several innocent,
hardworking and creative residents are struggling to gain even the list visa to
live in the United Kingdom to contribute to the economy, it has been revealed
how a judge expressed dismay at the Home Office for issuing a terrorist UK
passport few days prior to his attempt to travel to the Middle East.
The 22-year-old Mohanned Jasim
only told officials that he wanted a one-way travel document to travel to
war-torn Iraq, but surprisingly, the Home Office British citizenship and gave
him a passport.
As God will have it, just one
week later he was stopped by police at Dover with fellow Jihadist Mohammed
Mayow.
The Home Office decision brought
criticism from the astonished judge during a bail hearing last year and was
condemned by Tory MPs.
Conservative Philip Davies said:
“It’s extraordinary that anybody like that could be given British citizenship.”
Fellow Tory David Davies said:
“Too many British passports are being given out to too many people who frankly
shouldn’t be anywhere near one.”
Finally, Jasim of Southall, West
London, was given a jail term of two years for supporting terrorism by posting
pro-Islamic State tweets on social media.
The court was told that due to
his unwholesome practices, Twitter closed his account for up to five times
before he was apprehended by the police.
Refusing him bail last year,
Judge Rebecca Poulet QC said the defendant “in the period before he was stopped
has clearly indicated that he wished to leave the country.
“He has now got UK citizenship
and received a passport in November 2015.
“But before that he had written
to the Home Office saying he wanted to leave the country under a one-way travel
document. So I was a little surprised he was given citizenship and a passport.”
Jasim had wiped his mobile phone
but police later linked him to a Twitter account and recovered IS material from
a tablet.
Mayow, 23, was given five years
and two months for dissemination of terrorist publications on Twitter.
The court heard Jasim was born in
Iraq and the family moved to Damascus before arriving in the UK in 2009.
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