A Coventry engineer has been jailed for four years and eight months for sending money to fund his brother who is currently fighting in Syria with Daesh.
Nadeem Hussain, aged 36 from Coventry, was sentenced last week at Kingston Crown Court after he previously admitted three counts of being concerned in arrangements to make money available for the purposes of terrorism.
Hussain pleaded guilty to sending £4,000 to fund his brother Naweed Hussain, who is believed to have joined Daesh after travelling to the conflict zone in June 2015.
The cash was sent via a money transfer bureaus in Coventry over a period of three days in April 2016.
Nadeem 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.
Hussain 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.
