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A BARBER shop owner sent £25,000 to IS fighters in Syria after claiming thousands of pounds in Covid Bounce Back loans, a court heard.
Tarek Namouz, 43, is accused of sending at least seven payments between November 2020 and April 2021 to fund the terrorists.
Namouz had received grant relief from his local council — Hammersmith and Fulham in West London.
When police raided his Boss Crew Barbers shop in Olympia, West London, in May last year they found £3,000 cash and a hidden phone containing messages to a contact in Syria, an IS bomb-making video and footage showing how to kill with a knife.
In the months before his arrest, he made seven transfers totalling £11,280 to a man named Yahya Ahmed Alia in Syria, where Namouz had lived until he was 14.
Kingston crown court heard that during a bugged conversation with a friend who was visiting him in prison, Namouz told him he had sent £25,000 to Syria.
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The jury were told he sent cash to a former IS member who used it to buy sniper rifles and said he wanted to establish a base for 30 fighters.
Namouz said the £3,000 found by police was “from the government and from work money”.
Prosecutor John McGuinness KC told the jury: “He was in receipt of Covid loans and said he mixed the two together.’’
Namouz denies funding IS and possessing terrorist videos.
The trial continues.
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Heartbroken parents of dying baby were left shocked by nurse’s comment, Lucy Letby trial hears
A NURSE interrupted a heartbroken mum and dad as they tried to comfort their dying baby boy, telling them “you’ve said your goodbyes”, the Lucy Letby trial heard.
In a statement the dad of Baby C, whose brain had been starved of oxygen, said: “This comment shocked us.”
The father recalled how they held their baby boy as his life ebbed away, saying: “There was nothing more that could be done for him.
“We just wanted to cuddle him and make him pain-free.
“We didn’t want to leave him while he was still alive”.
A nurse he thought may have been Letby, 32, came in with a ventilated basket.
She told the couple: “You’ve said your goodbyes.
“Do you want me to put him in here?”
The father said: “This comment shocked us.
“My wife said ‘He’s not dead yet’.
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He added that the nurse, who he thought may have been Letby, “backed off and tried to defuse the situation but I couldn’t believe she’d said that”.
The tot’s mum said the 2015 death four days after his birth at the Countess of Chester Hospital was “very unexpected”.
Letby, 32, of Hereford, denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill a further ten.
The Manchester crown court trial continues.