From the maternity ward of Medway Hospital to the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa – in 10 years.

A decade ago, Chatham mother Sally Jones was in relaxed mood as she posed with newborn bundle of festive joy, baby Joe Dixon.

It was Christmas 2004. Three thousand miles away, Sunni militants had just claimed responsibility for bombing a US-base in the Iraqi city of Mosul, killing 22 people - but the troubles of the Middle East must have felt a world away from this scene of maternal bliss.

Now Jones and her 10-year-old son, renamed Hamza, are in the midst of them, and the mother of two has spoken out about her mission to join Jihadist group Islamic State.

The former member of an all-girl punk rock band told the Sunday Times she has taken her youngest son to Syria and now fears she will never be able to return to the UK.

The interview follows revelations the 45-year-old convert to Islam had married Junaid Hussain, a convicted computer hacker and Isis fighter from Birmingham, and posted a number of pro-Isis statements on Twitter – including one in which she threatened to behead Christians.

According to the newspaper, she now calls herself Sakinah Hussain while her son has adopted the Muslim name Hamza.

Jones, formerly of Harebell Close, Chatham, called Britain and America "terrorist" nations and said she had become militant in response to the two nations' killing of Muslims, travelling to the Middle East at the end of 2013.

Now living in Raqqa, where public beheadings and crucifixions are carried out, she told the newspaper she was a good mother - and had been hurt by claims she had abandoned her children, adding her eldest son was 18 and decided to stay at home.

Her husband and friend Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary were not involved in the beheading of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, she said, while her previous threat to behead Christians was just a response to online abuse.

She also denied claims by former neighbours that she had lived on benefits, saying she had worked as a saleswoman and make-up artist.

Jones is said to have once fronted an all-girl rock band in the 1990s and previously had an interest in black magic and witchcraft.

She is recently said to have warned: "You Christians all need beheading with a blunt knife and stuck on the railings at Raqqa... Come here I’ll do it for you."

Former neighbours in Chatham have spoken of her chaotic lifestyle, describing her as a "nightmare", who was always screaming and shouting and had previously believed she was a witch.