Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishA ‘wicked’ mother-of-four who was caught preparing to travel to Afghanistan with her children to make them martyrs for Islamic State has today been jailed for life.Farishta Jami, 36, pledged allegiance to Islamic State and had a ‘clear interest in the use of children in warfare’ including videos of children carrying out executions, which she shared online.The former school dinner lady was this afternoon ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years after a court heard how she sought to ‘indoctrinate and sacrifice her children for the cause’. Jurors heard Jami became an administrator on channels on the encrypted Telegram app which spread IS propaganda. Over a fortnight leading up to her arrest in November 2023 she searched 22 times for one-way flights to Kabul from the UK and planned to take her children with her. Michelle Heeley KC, prosecuting, said Jami made plans to take her family to Afghanistan to fight for Islamic State in Khorasan (ISK) – currently the terrorist group’s most active branch.Officers found £1,200 in cash hidden under a bed in her home along with passports that Jami was trying to sneak out of the house as police searched it.Bank statements showed she had more than £4,200 in two accounts, which the prosecutor said was ‘only going towards one thing, one-way tickets to Afghanistan.’ Farishta Jami with her hair uncovered in a police mugshot issued after her conviction in February… …and in a second mugshot issued a day later after Jami complained about the initial imageSentencing Jami at Leicester Crown Court, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said multiple deaths were ‘very likely to be caused’ in suicide attacks by Jami and her children – who were all under 16 – in Afghanistan.’Your intention to commit acts of terrorism was not transitory or fleeting, but one that you had settled on during a period of months. There is no evidence whatsoever that you are on a path to deradicalisation,’ she added.’The outcome of this trial means you will lose all normal contact with your four children, at least until they are adults.’The judge told Jami she had ‘adopted the ISIS philosophy of hatred and violence’ and added: ‘What you planned to do in sacrificing at least one of your children for ISIS was simply wicked.’You distributed those suicide videos of young boys, who should have been glorying in their health, their intelligence and their potential, but were radicalised and brainwashed into giving up their life, while murdering others.’That any mother should decide that her own child should follow their example is almost inconceivable, but that is what the ideology you embraced called for.’It is to be hoped that your children will grow up to value their lives and determine to make the best of them in this country which provides them with many opportunities for a happy, fulfilled future.’ £1,200 cash found hidden under a mattress at the new-build home where she settled in a village outside Stratford-upon-AvonFollowing Jami’s conviction in February, police released a second mugshot of her – wearing a niqab – after Jami complained an earlier custody image showed her without a head covering. West Midlands Police released the image where just Jami’s eyes were visible beneath a full head covering after Jami – who wore just a headscarf throughout her trial – complained to her barrister Matthew Brook KC about the earlier mughot. That image showed her long dark hair uncovered and tied back.Jami was born in Afghanistan and entered an arranged marriage at the age of 17. She followed her husband to Britain in 2008 and the pair settled in the North West of England, with Jami pregnant with their first child. She worked for many years as a lunchtime supervisor in a primary school, while also attending a Koran study circle three times a week and operating two social media channels offering advice about Islam.Jami was granted British citizenship in December 2011. But the marriage later became violent and in 2023 Jami was helped to move 130 miles south to a refuge in Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon.She ended up in a housing association property on a new-build estate a few miles outside the affluent Warwickshire town, surrounded by a mixture of starter and executive homes.A neighbour in the new ‘leisure village’ called Meon Vale told MailOnline one of his few dealings with Jami involved her returning a bottle of champagne he had gifted her.The resident, who asked not to be named, said: ‘At Christmas time we gave a hamper to all of our close neighbours. The wad of notes in-situ under the mattress at Jami’s home‘They included a bottle of champagne but Farishta gave her bottle back to us because she was a Muslim and didn’t drink.’He described Jami as ‘rather sweet’ and said he mowed her lawn for her and ‘in return, she would bring us food on occasions.’The man said that apart from these infrequent encounters with the would-be Jihadist, he rarely saw Jami leave her home – until armed police arrived in November 2023 to ‘kick the door in’.Jami’s trial heard she spent much of her time on her phone – engaged in chats from multiple Telegram accounts or peddling Islamic State propaganda on her YouTube channel. The defence claimed this was because Jami was ‘isolated’ and ‘lonely’ in a sleepy Warwickshire community, but the court heard Jami graduated to an ‘organising and administrative role’ in IS.When the officers examined Jami’s phones they found that Jami had become the administrator for several channels on the encrypted Telegram app which spread Islamic State propaganda and instructional material.Some of the groups had over 700 members and Jami shared and received videos showing dead bodies, beheadings, how to assemble an assault rifle and manuals on how to make explosives and construct homemade bombs.Of the videos that she had, a number depicted children being used as suicide bombers.In one message on July 11 2023 Jami had written: ‘Praise to Allah, god willing I and my children get martyrdom and you also distribute sweets (n celebration) my sister. ‘May Allah enable us all to get together in Khorasan (Afghanistan)’.Ms Heeley said Jami was ‘readying her children to become martyrs, she was assisting them to become terrorists.”They of course were far too young to understand what was happening,’ she added.The judge told the defendant: ‘What no one outside knew was that your time and energy were spent participating in the online promotion of ISIS propaganda through numerous chat groups and channels, predominantly on the Telegram platform.’On October 7, the day of the Hamas attack in Israel, Jami sent four videos to one of her children, including footage of an Israeli soldier being killed. The child shared the material in school on a Teams chat.The next day, October 8, Jami told a contact: ‘I have to bring four children,’ adding: ‘God willing I will come, my sister, the tickets need a lot of money I am collecting and will come.’She added: ‘My brother we are 100 per cent leaving in the next months, pray for me that we are successful’ adding that she would encourage her children ‘until the times comes.’That month, Jami’s eldest child told a teacher how they had been watching videos of Israeli people being beheaded and tortured on TikTok in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks.The child was referred to the Prevent de-radicalisation scheme and consideration was given to referring a second child, moves which led to a police investigation.When police raided Jami’s address in November 2023, they seized a large number of phones and 30 SIM cards hidden in a plastic bag at the side of the bed.But Jami continued her online activities using a ‘secret chat’ function on Telegram – and in one message pledged to convert fellow inmates to Islam if she went to prison.Jami told police she was communicating with people who had an interest in Islamic State to challenge their views.But Ms Heeley said the messages sent ‘do not show a woman challenging terrorist views, rather they show a woman who shares the same views, and encourages others’. The new-build home where Jami lived outside Stratford-upon-Avon, WarwickshireShe said Jami was ‘planning on travelling to Afghanistan to support Islamic State, to martyr herself, and more worryingly, her children, on behalf of the cause of IS.’She doesn’t want to simply sacrifice herself, she wants to martyr her children.’Jami was found guilty of two counts of preparing acts of terrorism by making plans to take her family to Afghanistan to fight for Islamic State in Khorasan Province. Detective Chief Superintendent Alison Hurst, head of Counter-Terrorism Policing West Midlands, said Jami had been sharing ‘really concerning nasty videos’ and sent some of that material to her own children.’It was really concerning from that perspective, as they were young and vulnerable’, she added.’The mother has been arrested and brought to justice for the really horrendous crime that she committed, the children’s vulnerabilities have been identified and they have been appropriately safeguarded.’
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