Salim Wakil, 25, was jailed for two and a half years for sending his jihadi bride sister £2,350 to pay for people smugglers to bring her back home to Hampshire
The brother of a jihadi bride who sent her money to escape from ISIS is to appeal against his jail term after the parents of Jihadi Jack avoided prison with a suspended sentence.
Salim Wakil, a restaurant worker, was jailed for two and a half years in February after sending £2,350 to his sister in Raqqa so she could hire people smugglers to get her back home.
Whereas Sally Lane, 57, a charity worker, and John Letts, 58, an organic farmer from Oxford, were given a 15-month suspended sentence after sending £223 to their convert son in the hopes of 'luring' him away from fighting with ISIS in Syria.
It is thought the couple’s sentence could pave the way for a number of people jailed for sending money to extremist relatives to appeal and ask to be freed.
Wakil's sister, Sumaiyyah, had pleaded: 'I made a stupid mistake.
'I want to come home. You have to help me or I'll be stuck.
'The enemies are one kilometre away from the city.'
Wakil initially resisted her demands but eventually caved in and sent the money.
Like Jihadi Jack's parents, there was no suggestion that the Wakils had any sympathy for terrorism and during Wakil's trial the judge said: 'I do believe that your sister manipulated you'.
Miss Wakil had married Mehdi Hassan, one of the Portsmouth 'Britani Brigade', after running away from home in Fleet, Hampshire, aged 16 leaving her family a note.
Sources say Wakil is now set to appeal his sentence.
Jihadi Jack's parents, Sally Lane, 57, and John Letts, 58, avoided jail with a suspended sentence after sending their son £223 in the hopes of 'luring' him home from Syria
Like Jihadi Jack's (pictured) parents, there was no suggestion that the Wakils had any sympathy for terrorism and during Wakil's trial the judge said: 'I do believe that your sister manipulated you'
Jihadi Jack's mother, Ms Lane, bought a ticket for her son to fly to Amman, Jordan, on May 26, 2014, and then sent a further £1,800 for him to study Arabic in Kuwait.
But on September 2 he phoned to say: 'Mum, I'm in Syria.'
Despite being warned by police not to send any money to their son, Ms Lane decided to use money left to her when her father died to try and 'lure' him out of Syria, initially sending £223 to Lebanon from The Money Shop in Oxford on to pay for food and new glasses.
A police handout image of some of the messages sent between Wakil and his sister Sumaiyyah
Sumaiyyah, whose messages are pictured, left the UK when she was just 16 in August 2014
In messages they exchanged, Sumaiyyah told her brother she had made a 'stupid mistake'
Nadeem Hussain, 38, was jailed for four years and eight months in 2017.
He had pleaded guilty to sending £4,000 to fund his brother Naweed Hussain, who is believed to have joined Daesh after travelling to the conflict zone in June 2015.
The cash was sent via a money transfer bureaus in Coventry over a period of three days in April 2016.
Amal El-Wahabi, 28, of London, was jailed for more than two years in 2014 after convincing a friend to take €20,000 (£17,879) in cash to her husband in Turkey.
Her husband, Aine Davis, was a drug dealer who went to Syria to fight in July 2013.
Abdurahman Kaabar, 24, and Badroddin Kazkaz, 23, were jailed for a total of 12 years for sending Kaabar's brother money after he left the UK for Syria to take part in 'violent jihadi activity'.
They were told by police they should not send him money but on December 31, Sally Lane entered a WH Smith in Oxford and attempted to make a Western Union money transfer of £1000 to Lebanon .
It was blocked, but on January 4, 2016, she attempted two more online Western Union transfers of £500 each, using the name Nicola Thomas and giving a fake address in Coulston, Wiltshire.
When she was arrested, Ms Lane told police she had decided to 'accept the consequences' of sending her son money in order to get him out alive.
John Letts said: 'If I didn't act and something happens to him, how am I ever going to forgive myself?'
Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC told the couple they had 'nursed the hope' that their son was working as translator or administrator of some kind rather than a fighter.
But he said they should have realised that was not the case and added: 'It is one thing for parents to be optimistic for and about their children - and I do acknowledge that this was the son that you loved very much and it is in your nature to look for the best in others.
'But you did lose sight of the realities and ignored warnings of one kind or another.'
Sumaiyyah Wakil was 16 when she ran away from home in Fleet, Hampshire, leaving her family a note that she was going to join the fighting and warning them not to contact the police.
They sent her increasingly concerned messages to try and persuade her to return and her brother eventually sent $3,000 (£2,350) to pay for people smugglers.
In one of the messages they exchanged, Wakil asked his sister: 'You don't trust Allah?'
