Taxi driver in UK found guilty of plotting to join ISIS

February 12, 2016 22:25

A 26-year-old taxi driver believed to be of Pakistani-origin, who planned to leave his pregnant wife in the UK to join the Islamic State in Syria and marry a 'jihadi bride', was found today guilty of terrorism charges by

a British court here.

Naseer Mirza Taj, from Bedford in the east of England, was a sympathiser of extremists and had plotted to travel to Syria and marry a jihadi bride, his trial at the Old Bailey court in London was told.

The jury found him guilty of preparation of terrorist acts and two counts of possessing terrorist information.

He will be sentenced at a later hearing in April.

Taj, believed to be of Pakistani-origin, was to travel to Syria via Turkey on December 31, 2014 but was arrested two days before he could leave.

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