Liverpool barber shared IS beheadings video on WhatsApp group – BBC

Barber who shared IS video of beheadings jailed PA Media Mohammed Hamad was part of a WhatsApp group which pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State A barber who admitted sending propaganda videos from the organisation calling itself Islamic State (IS) to a WhatsApp group has been jailed. Liverpool Crown Court heard one of the videos Mohammed Hamad shared in January 2023 was of three prisoners being beheaded in a street. The 30-year-old, who on Tuesday pleaded guilty to two counts of disseminating terrorist publications, was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison. It can now also be reported that three other men from the WhatsApp group are already serving custodial sentences. James Chapelard/Crimestoppers Hamad shared a video of prisoners being beheaded by IS The court heard that when Hamad was arrested at his Liverpool home in March 2024, he claimed to have “lost my phone a long time ago”. Prosecutor David Earl said Hamad, who was born in Iraq, came to the UK illegally from Iraqi Kurdistan in 2016. Hamad told authorities his life would be in danger were he to return home, and he also claimed he would be arrested. The court heard Hamad said he studied
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