Man who went to Syria guilty of joining al Qaida-linked group

Man who went to Syria guilty of joining al Qaida-linked group

Isa Giga, 32, resigned from his job as a technical support consultant job and flew to Turkey before crossing into wartorn Syria in 2015.A man has been found ...

A man, who previously lived in Hounslow has been convicted of travelling to Syria with the intention of committing acts of terrorism.

32 year old Isa Giga was arrested at Heathrow Airport in May last year after he caught a flight back from Turkey. Met counter terrorism police had been notified in 2018 that Giga had travelled to Syria, via Turkey, to fight for the Jaysh Al Fath group, which was part of an alliance of Islamist armed factions fighting in the Syrian civil war, including an Al-Qaeda affiliated group. Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Com…