Irish Ex-Soldier Jailed for 15 Months for Joining Daesh in Syria

Date: 22 July 2022 - 21:35

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DUBLIN (AFP) – Dublin’s Special Criminal Court on Friday sentenced former soldier Lisa Smith to 15 months in jail for joining the Daesh terrorist group in Syria. Judge Tony Hunt said the 40-year-old mother of one, from Dundalk on Ireland’s east coast, was a low risk for reoffending. But he said Smith went to Syria with her “eyes wide open” and had shown no remorse for her actions. Smith was convicted in May of belonging to the banned terror group between 2015 and 2019. She is the first person to be convicted in an Irish court of a terrorist offence of such nature committed abroad.