Jeremy Corbyn’s plea for terror fraudster Dahir, 23, to be granted bail falls flat

Four conmen found guilty of scamming £600k from the elderly to fund ISIS monsters.

A CONMAN whose gang helped fund IS by swindling £600,000 from the elderly was behind bars last night  despite a plea from Jeremy Corbyn.

Controversial move . . . Dahir, left, is behind bars, despite Corbyn's letter

Mohammed Dahir, 23, was one of four men convicted of a phone scam on 18 OAPs. An ISIS terror suspect believed to be in Syria received some of the cash, it emerged last night.


After the verdicts, barrister Patrick Harte told the Old Bailey Mr Corbyn, Labour leader and MP for Islington North, had written to back student Dahir’s application for bail, saying “he has roots in the area”.
But Judge Anuja Dhir QC ordered all four to be remanded in custody.

Elderly victims from the South of England, with the oldest believed to be 96, were phoned up by the gang, the court heard. They were told their bank cards had been cloned and their cash needed to be moved.

The gang advised them to ring 999 but, when the victims hung up, they used a device to keep the line open. The conmen then posed as cops  and emptied their accounts.

One victim, Elizabeth Curtis, lost £130,000, while another Michael Garratt, was conned of £113,000.
The Met’s anti-terror boss Commander Richard Walton said last night: “We uncovered this fraud after a separate terrorist investigation found suspicious payments to a bank account of an individual now believed to have travelled to Syria.”

Dahir plus Yasser Abukar, 23, of Islington, North London, and Sakaria Aden, 21, of Stoke Newington, were convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud.

Mohammed Abokar, of Islington, was found guilty of converting criminal property while a fifth was acquitted. They will be sentenced at a date to be fixed.