{"id":94739,"date":"2017-10-07T23:26:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=94739"},"modified":"2017-10-07T23:26:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:56:01","slug":"zameer-ghumra-jailed-showing-beheading-video-child-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=94739","title":{"rendered":"Zameer Ghumra jailed for showing beheading video to child | BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who showed a beheading video to a child has been jailed for six years.<\/p>\n

Pharmacist Zameer Ghumra, of Leicester, tried to brainwash primary school-age children into supporting the so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n

Ghumra, 38, who told boys they should kill people who insulted Islam, was convicted at Nottingham Crown Court of disseminating “terrorist propaganda”.<\/p>\n

Judge Gregory Dickinson QC said it was a “determined effort” to radicalise children and turn them into terrorists.<\/p>\n

He said the targeting of children made the case “particularly serious”.<\/p>\n

“These were shocking crimes which damaged the children and caused offence to the vast majority of law abiding Muslims,” the judge added.<\/p>\n

He also noted there had been an “absence of remorse” from Ghumra.<\/p>\n

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The court heard one of the boys had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and another was finding it difficult to sleep and was “afraid of snipers”.<\/p>\n

During his trial the prosecution said Ghumra “brainwashed” the children, instructing them to not have non-Muslim friends and asking if they wanted to join IS or help recruit others to its ranks.<\/p>\n

The older boy described being shown “horrible and disgusting” beheading videos, and said he asked Ghumra “how can you behead people?”.<\/p>\n

He said the pharmacist replied: “If you truly believe in Allah, you can do it.”<\/p>\n

Ghumra also followed various IS-linked social media accounts and made the two children follow similar accounts.<\/p>\n

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The jury was told Ghumra had rented out houses with the intention of setting up a madrasa – an Islamic religious school.<\/p>\n

Ghumra, of Haringworth Road, was convicted of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” in the form of a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone, between January 2013 and September 2014.<\/p>\n

Det Ch Supt Martin Snowden, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said Ghumra “willingly abused a position of trust” by showing children “a violent and explicit beheading video with no regard for the profound effect the disturbing material may have on them”.<\/p>\n

“That act alone is unforgivable,” he added.<\/p>\n

“His teaching role increases his risk, potentially giving him direct access to young or vulnerable people who may look up to him as an authority figure.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man who showed a beheading video to a child has been jailed for six years. Pharmacist Zameer Ghumra, of Leicester, tried to brainwash primary school-age children into supporting the so-called Islamic State. Ghumra, 38, who told boys they should kill people who insulted Islam, was convicted at Nottingham Crown Court of disseminating “terrorist propaganda”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[66,1203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}