Police issue second mugshot of convicted female British ISIS terrorist after she complained that first picture showed her without a head covering

I had the report of this evil bitch woman’s conviction set aside first thing this morning but decided to wait until she was actually sentenced. Then I saw this. From the Daily Mail. 

Police released a mugshot of a woman convicted of terrorism offences wearing a niqab – after she complained an earlier custody image showed her without a head covering.

Jurors heard Farishta Jami, 36, had been preparing to travel to Afghanistan with her children, planning for them to become martyrs for Islamic State, when police raided her address in November 2023.

The single mother-of-four had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and displayed a ‘clear interest in the use of children in warfare’ – including videos of children carrying out executions, the court was told.

This afternoon, West Midlands Police issued a fresh custody image with just Farishta Jami’s eyes visible beneath a full head covering after defence barrister Matthew Brook KC told the judge his client had been upset to see the earlier mugshot.

The lawyer told Leicester Crown Court: ‘Reports of the verdicts yesterday used an image of my client, released by the police, in which her head wasn’t covered.  This has caused her some considerable distress and the police are going to release a different image. We would request that is used instead.’

The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she could not make an order and left it to the press to decide which image to use.

Jami had been due to be sentenced today after she was convicted 24 hours earlier on two counts of preparing acts of terrorism between September 1 2022 and January 10 2024.

But the sentencing hearing was adjourned in order for a pre-sentence report from the probation service to be prepared about Jami.

Mrs Justice Chubb said: ‘In such a serious case as this it is vital that the sentence is justified on cogent material before the court. The online communications give every indication of a woman firmly committed to the cause and in possession of extremist propaganda, espousing radical views and intent on influencing others. However, I have no evidence of her current mindset.’

West Midlands Police issued the new custody image around an hour later, even though Jami had worn only a headscarf during the three-week trial, rather than the full niqab she is now pictured in.

The court heard the former school dinner lady became an administrator on various channels on the encrypted Telegram app which spread IS propaganda as she sought to ‘indoctrinate and sacrifice her children for the cause.’

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.

She will now be sentenced on a date to be fixed.