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A Gillingham man who fought against Isis says Chatham mum turned jihadi terrorist Sally Jones should not be allowed back into the UK.
Anthony Harrison, who joined the YPG to fight with The Free Syrian Army, spoke out following reports the mother-of-two, who became one of the world’s most wanted terrorist recruiters after settling in the Islamic State, is desperate to return.
She was put on the Pentagon’s kill list after she and her extremist husband Junaid Hussain were responsible for planning a dozen terror plots.
But a friend in Raqqa, known as Aisha, told Sky News the 49-year-old wants to return to Britain two years after the death of her husband in an American drone strike.
“She was crying and wants to get back to Britain, but Isis is preventing her because she is now a military wife,” Aisha said.
“She told me she wished to go to her own country.”
But former Howard School pupil and MidKent College student Mr Harrison, 28, who spent two months in the Syrian desert fighting against Isis troops in 2015 has no sympathy for Jones’ alleged plight.
“Sally definitely shouldn’t be allowed back to the UK,” he said.
“She’s joined an enemy of the world and expecting to come back to a civilization? Absolute joke.
“She can’t just come back and pretend she hasn’t possibly been involved in some awful things whilst being with the Islamic State.
“She’s meant to be on the watch list, and to think there would be a possibility in her coming back is a absolutely disgusting.
“To think she would be walking amongst us again, and maybe getting off with a couple hours held in detention at the airport...no way.
“She should get arrested on the spot if she was to come back to the UK, and the key thrown away.”
Jones, a former punk band guitarist, joined Isis in 2013 after marrying Hussain and was later named as a “specially designated global terrorist” on the US government’s Federal Register.
Hussain was regarded as the most prominent British member of Islamic State after the man known as “Jihadi John”, and was killed in 2015.
In 2016 Jones repeatedly warned of terror attacks in London.
Using Twitter, she wrote: “To be honest I wouldn’t go into Central London through June...or even July well to be honest I wouldn’t go there at all especially by Tube.”
Jones had also suggested she would be willing to carry out a suicide mission of her own.
She said she wanted to behead Christians with a blunt knife and encouraged extremists to launch terror attacks on British soil.