With the intention of joining her 14 month old baby in ISIS, a British Muslim mother is on the trail.

The lady claimed that, she was unaware of the true nature of the terrorist group and had traveled to the country only to live under Sharia law.

Tareena Shakil, 26, has told the Birmingham Crown Court jury that she only wanted to live under Sharia law and feared she would go to hell, if she lived in England.

Before the lady left UK, the court was told that, she spoke on Facebook, to a man named Fabio Pocas, whose online profile showed an armed man posing with the black flag of ISIS.  

Speaking about that man, UK mother denied the terrorism and said, “He told me ‘You cannot live in a state that is not under Sharia’. He said ‘Look sister, by staying in England, you’re hanging over the gates of hell. If you die that’s where you’re going’.

“The impact on me was far any Muslim would want to save them from hell, it’s just how you go about it.” She flew out of the UK in October 2014 with her child, telling her family she was going on a package holiday to Turkey.

But she went to Syria and stayed for several months and then returned to Britain on February 2015. Shakil, who claims she escaped from Syria, was repeatedly asked about tweets, she had sent in the weeks, before setting off.

In September, she tweeted Sally Ann Jones, who traveled to Syria and is thought to have married Junaid Hussain, British extremist, who was killed in a US drone strike, last year. Shakil claims she thought Jones was just “an ordinary woman”.

“I didn’t know who this woman was nor had I read any of the disgusting things she said online. It was only after, when interviewed by police that I found out who she was and what she had said,” she said.

The former University of Wolverhampton student denies charges encouraging terrorism on social media and traveling to the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to join ISIS. Currently, the trial is being carried on and is expected to last a few weeks.

By Phani Ch