Canadian twins plead guilty to terrorism, face jail time

August 27, 2016 01:14

Canadian twin brothers who had hoped to join the Islamic State group pleaded guilty to "terrorism" offenses and were sentenced today to prison terms, prosecutors announced.

The brothers, Ashton and Carlos Larmond, both 25, received sentences of 17 and seven years, respectively.

A third man, Suliman Mohamed, 23, faces a seven-year term for conspiring with the twins.

In court, prosecutor Douglas Curliss described Ashton as the "organiser and director" of an unspecified extremist plot.

Police alleged that he had urged others to wage jihad after his mother alerted the authorities of his plan to travel to Syria to join the IS group in 2013 and the government revoked his passport.

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