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Walsall terror trial: Take him back or go to Hell, wife warned

A wife from Walsall who kicked out her ISIS sympathiser husband was told to take him back or 'go to hell' by the Muslim Council, a jury heard.

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Lorna Moore who is accused of failing to tell the authorities her husband planned to join ISIS

Lorna Moore, 33, had previously separated from Sajid Aslam, aged 34, for six months but was told to accept him back after they turned to the council for guidance. The Old Bailey heard how Aslam bullied Moore, who is on trial for failing to alert authorities of her husband's intentions to join the so-called Islamic State in Syria. Aslam is believed to be in Syria now.

Prosecutor Mr Julian Christopher QC told jurors that Moore was born in Northern Ireland and raised a Protestant but converted to Islam having met Sajid Aslam at Manchester Metropolitan University.

They had an Islamic marriage and two children in 'quick succession', settling down in a house in Glebe Street, Walsall.

Their relationship deteriorated and she tried to get him out of their home due to his 'bullying and controlling behaviour', the court heard.

In 2010, she asked police to remove him but officers told her they had no power to do it, so she locked him out and he went to stay with his mother for six months.

When they turned to the Muslim Council for guidance, the trainee maths teacher said she was told to accept him back or 'go to hell', so he moved in again but as a lodger not a husband, the court heard.

In a 'rare moment of reconciliation' in 2013, she became pregnant with their third child, Mr Christopher said.

However, an earlier conversation recorded on her mobile phone demonstrated the breakdown of their relationship.

Moore is on trial alongside Ayman Shaukat, aged 27. Shaukat is accused of assisting Aslam and another man on their way to fight for ISIS as well as helping 22-year-old Alex Nash, a Muslim convert, and his wife Yousma Jan travel towards Syria.

He is also charged with possession of information contrary to Terrorism Act 2000 around June 9 2015 in relation to a copy of '39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad' on a laptop external hard drive.

Evidence suggests that this e-book, which formed part of a collection of extremist material, was shared between Jacob Petty, Aslam, Nash and Shaukat.

Nash, who travelled to Syria with his wife, eventually returned home and pleaded guilty to preparing acts of terrorism. Jacob Petty, aged 25, was killed in Syria in December 2014. Isaiah Siadatan, who went to the same school as Petty, left to meet up with his friend in August 2014, leaving behind his wife Kerry Thomason and their two children. The trial continues.

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