Jamshed Javeed: Family's desperate bid to stop teacher travelling to join Islamic State revealed in emotional recordings
A family's desperate bid to stop a teacher joining Islamic State has been revealed in emotional recordings.
Jamshed Javeed's family were so against his plans to travel to Syria in 2013 they hid his passport.
An angry confrontation between Javeed and his family was recorded by his sister.
"You don't want me to go innit? I know why. But I want to go. And I am gonna go - regardless," he told his family.
His mother even accuses him of being a "murderer" for helping his younger brother - who has not been heard from in over a year - travel to Syria.
Despite their emotional pleas and news that his wife was expecting their second child, Javeed persisted with his plans.
But two days after the family argument, he was arrested.
When searching Javeed's home, police found a rucksack containing £1,490 in cash, thermal gloves, bandages and combat-style trousers.
His internet history also revealed an interest in violent jihadist extremism, with past searches including radical clerics Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada, as well as the jihadi group Jabhat al Nusra.
Speaking after sentencing Javeed to six years in prison, Judge Michael Topolski praised the former teacher's family for their "resolve and courage" in attempting to foil his plans.
Det Chief Supt Tony Mole, head of the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, said the family took "brave steps" in hiding items which may have proved useful to Javeed in Syria, such as medical equipment, money and iPads.
"Despite the family argument and hiding his equipment, he has applied for another passport and replenished his stocks, and hence our subsequent arrest and intervention because we assessed that the risk of him getting out there was becoming too high," he said.
He urged other families who had concerns over their loved ones to contact counter-terror officials.