LONDON: Three British Muslims including a convert to Islam were sentenced to jail at the Old Bailey central criminal court in London on Thursday for travelling to Pakistan for terror training.
A 30-year-old white Muslim convert Richard Dart was jailed for six years, 22-year-old Imran Mahmood was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment and nine months and Jahangir Alom, 26, for four-and-a-half years.
Dart and Alom had admitted seeking terror training in Pakistan while Mahmood, who did join a Pakistani terror camp, acted as an advisor to them.
In a statement after sentencing, Stuart Osborne of Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command said that “These are dangerous men.”
“Mahmood had received terrorist training in Pakistan and suggested he had knowledge of how to make homemade explosives while Dart and Alom made great efforts to travel to Pakistan and aspired to seek training from terrorist groups there.”
The three men were arrested in July last year. They had been stopped at airports at various points while travelling to and from Pakistan.
