Lisa Smith

The verdicts were delivered by Mr Justice Tony Hunt this morning at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin following a nine-week trial. It was the prosecution's ...

In her garda interviews she said she didn't know what ISIS was and that she only knew it as IS. This included her husband Sajid Aslam who was a fighter for the group. Ms Smith, the court said, "knew full well" the techniques and views of those who enforced Sharia Law where she wanted to live. He said she did however travel to Syria in 2015 having conducted extensive research on "what and who awaited her". Under a post of the article Smith wrote: "Can't wait to hear the full story. In relation to the second charge, the non-jury court said there was "no doubt" that at the time of the attempted money transfer the intended recipient, John Georgelas, was a member of ISIS involved in propaganda and fighting.

Lisa Smith, a former Irish solider has been convicted of membership of the terrorist group Isis. The three judge non jury court gave a lengthy judgement ...

Ms Smith who always denied the charges cried in court after the membership verdict was revealed. Lisa Smith, a former Irish solider has been convicted of membership of the terrorist group Isis. Lisa Smith has been found guilty of membership of Isis at the Special Criminal Court.

The judge said Smith travelled to Syria 'with her eyes open' and pledged allegiance to the organisation led by terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

She denied that she went to join a terrorist organisation. Smith (39) from Dundalk, Co Louth had pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful terrorist group, Islamic State, between October 28th, 2015 and December 1st, 2019. Smith cried in court after the membership verdict was revealed.

The former Irish soldier, who turned 40 during her lengthy trial, was cleared of a separate charge of financing terrorism. It took an hour and a half to deliver ...

Smith was allowed to remain on bail ahead of her sentence hearing in July. It took an hour and a half to deliver the court’s judgement and in the end, Lisa Smith was acquitted of funding terrorism through an attempted Western Union transfer to an ISIS fighter, but found guilty of being a member of the terror group from the moment she entered Syria in 2015 to the end of 2019. But the judges didn’t believe her decision to go there was solely based on a sense of religious duty.

THE Special Criminal Court is due to hand down a judgement today on former soldier Lisa Smith who is accused of being a member of ISIS and of financing ...

The court is due to sit today to deliver a judgement in the case. THE Special Criminal Court is due to hand down a judgement today on former soldier Lisa Smith who is accused of being a member of ISIS and of financing terrorism. She is also accused of financing terrorism through an €800 Western Union transfer in 2015 to help an ISIS fighter.

The Special Criminal Court is still delivering it's judgement in relation to a charge of membership of Isis. Lisa Smith from Dundalk in Col Louth had ...

Lisa Smith from Dundalk in Col Louth had pleaded not guilty to all charges put before her in relation to a terrorist organisation. The prosecution alleged that by travelling to Syria in answer to for all Muslims to come to Syria, Ms Smith joined a terrorist organisation. Lisa Smith has been found not guilty of funding a terrorist organisation.

The judge noted that religion is "irrelevant to membership of Isis" as a person would not gain immunity for a crime because he believed he had a religious ...

He accepted that there is no evidence of her engaging in military activity but said such evidence is not required to prove membership of a terrorist organisation. He said there was evidence that she had already taken on extreme views before she began speaking to members of a Dundalk mosque in 2011. She travelled to Mecca in 2012 and became active in online discussion groups before travelling to Syria for the first time in 2013 with John Georgelas and his then-wife Tania Joya. Mr Justice Hunt said it was clear from Smith's online conversations with other jihadists that at this time she was aware of the criminal nature of those exchanges and discussed using more private communications to hide what they were discussing. He said that her reasons for going to Syria were "grounded in allegiance to or agreement with the views espoused by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." Mr Justice Hunt said that the court accepts that Isis is a terrorist organisation that controlled parts of Syria and Iraq when Smith decided to travel to its territory in late 2015. He said religion was "irrelevant" as criminal activity cannot be justified by religious obligation. An obvious feature, he said, was the "extreme degree of intolerance and the extremity of violence towards apostates and non-believers". People like Smith who travelled, or made hijrah, to the Islamic State were given a special status as the organisation wanted to encourage foreigners to join. She denied that she went to join a terrorist organisation. He said there was no "benign" explanation for her travel and no alternative Islamic State that she could have been travelling to. The judge noted that religion is "irrelevant to membership of Isis" as criminal activity cannot be justified by religious obligation.

Three judges at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday found former soldier Lisa Smith guilty of joining the so-called Islamic State group in Syria.

They have said it could only be argued "at a stretch" that she provided some sort of assistance to the group because she had kept a home for her husband. The court was told that she bought a one-way ticket from Dublin to Turkey, crossing the border into Syria and living in Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State's self-styled caliphate. During the trial, which began in January, prosecutors detailed how Smith, who was a member of the Irish Defence Forces from 2001 to 2011, travelled to IS controlled territory in 2015 after converting to Islam.

Lisa Smith had an ordinary childhood in Dundalk, deciding at the age of 19 to join the Defence Forces. How did she end up being found guilty of being a ...

During a previous trip to Syria, she had asked the militia fighters what she could do to help but was laughed at and told to get in the kitchen. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Ms Duffy encouraged Smith to attend classes at the mosque to learn about Islam. She did not come often and when she did "it didn't go very well", Ms Duffy remembered. "I don't know if they would believe or not, but this is the truth, whether they believe it or not, that’s up to them. She was, Ms Duffy said, vulnerable because she was heartbroken, and part of her interest in coming to the religion may have been to get back with the man she loved. At that time al-Qaeda was in the news and Smith wanted to talk about jihad and justifying why suicide bombings were happening. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Ms Duffy said that when Smith started speaking online to an American Islamic convert and Isis recruiter named John Georgelas, he may have "pulled on her heartstrings a little bit and she went with it. She had dabbled in other religions and thought this was the one for her." Ms Duffy said Lisa had been in a long-term relationship that was coming to an end. In 2010, Smith converted to Islam, and soon took to wearing the hijab - the Muslim veil which covers a woman's hair.