London: A 22-year-old Pakistan-born British terror suspect wanted to join Islamic State militant group to exorcise the "evil spirits" that plagued him, a UK court has been told.
Mubashir Jamil, described as a "gifted" student from Luton in the east of England, is on trial on terrorism charges at the Old Bailey Court in London.
"The defence will say the defendant sought to join ISIS as a way of exorcising the various evil spirits that plagued him, that he did not have any intention to commit acts of terrorism anywhere, that he had no intention to engage in violent jihad," Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson said at the ongoing trial this week, the report said.
"It was through the internet that the defendant was drawn into a world poles apart from that of a gifted schoolboy with A* in both the arts and the sciences. Through the world wide web the defendant became an extreme jihadist radical and follower of Islamic State," Jameson said.
"He became a would-be ISIS recruit willing to sacrifice his life for ISIS and indeed the lives of others," he said. Jamil had allegedly offered to put on a suicide vest to execute a terrorist attack in the UK and was arrested by
Jamil worked at a local Amazon warehouse in Luton and listed his interests as reading fiction, surfing the internet and physical training.
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