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Police released a mugshot of a woman convicted of terrorism offences wearing a niqab – after she complained an earlier custody image showed her without a head covering.
Jurors heard Farishta Jami, 36, had been preparing to travel to Afghanistan with her children, planning for them to become martyrs for Islamic State, when police raided her address in November 2023.
The single mother-of-four had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and displayed a ‘clear interest in the use of children in warfare’ - including videos of children carrying out executions, the court was told.
This afternoon, West Midlands Police issued a fresh custody image with just Farishta Jami’s eyes visible beneath a full head covering after defence barrister Matthew Brook KC told the judge his client had been upset to see the earlier mugshot.
In that image, issued following ‘observant’ Muslim Jami’s conviction on Thursday, she was seen with her long dark hair uncovered and tied back.
The lawyer told Leicester Crown Court: ‘Reports of the verdicts yesterday used an image of my client, released by the police, in which her head wasn’t covered.
'This has caused her some considerable distress and the police are going to release a different image. We would request that is used instead.’
The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she could not make an order and left it to the press to decide which image to use.
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>Police released a mugshot of a woman convicted of terrorism offences wearing a niqab – after she complained an earlier custody image showed her without a head covering.
Jurors heard Farishta Jami, 36, had been preparing to travel to Afghanistan with her children, planning for them to become martyrs for Islamic State, when police raided her address in November 2023.
The single mother-of-four had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and displayed a ‘clear interest in the use of children in warfare’ - including videos of children carrying out executions, the court was told.
This afternoon, West Midlands Police issued a fresh custody image with just Farishta Jami’s eyes visible beneath a full head covering after defence barrister Matthew Brook KC told the judge his client had been upset to see the earlier mugshot.
In that image, issued following ‘observant’ Muslim Jami’s conviction on Thursday, she was seen with her long dark hair uncovered and tied back.
The lawyer told Leicester Crown Court: ‘Reports of the verdicts yesterday used an image of my client, released by the police, in which her head wasn’t covered.
'This has caused her some considerable distress and the police are going to release a different image. We would request that is used instead.’
The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she could not make an order and left it to the press to decide which image to use.
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