Two men jailed for funding terrorism

Two men from Sheffield have been given jail sentences by Sheffield Crown Court for sending money to Syria to fund terrorism.

Abdurahman Kaabar, 24, and Badroddin Kazkaz, 23, were found to have sent money to the former’s brother after he left the UK to ‘engage in violent Jihadi activity’ and fight against the Syrian government.

Kaabar, who admitted to 15 offences relating to disseminating or possessing material likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, has been jailed for eight years, with Kazkaz sentenced to four years.

Sentencing Kaabar, Judge Paul Watson QC said: "It was clear that you had wed yourself to a corrupt and corrosive ideology of Islamic extremism. The volume of material which you downloaded and kept in your possession was frankly breathtaking and the content of which was horrific."