A chemistry teacher who wanted to travel to Syria to fight with Islamic State has been jailed for six years.
Jamshed Javeed, 30, who taught at a school in Bolton, admitted two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
Jamshed Javeed, the chemistry teacher who wanted to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic State, has been jailed for six years.
Javeed, from Manchester, was planning to travel in late 2013 after helping his younger brother make the trip.
The 30-year-old's family hid his passport in a desperate bid to stop him travelling, but he refused to change his plans even after his wife told him she was pregnant.
Javeed, who taught at Sharples School in Bolton, was arrested in December 2013 hours before he was set to leave the UK.
He admitted two terror offences, but insisted he was only travelling to support the ordinary Syrian people, not to join the terror group.
But Judge Michael Topolski said he was "not satisfied" that Javeed had rejected "Isis's ultimate aims" and handed him a six-year custodial term and an extended licence period of three years.
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