The judge dismissed the appeal and said the length of the sentence was legitimately within the discretion of the sentencing.
FORMER MEMBER OF the Defence Forces Lisa Smith has lost an appeal against the severity of her sentence to 15 months in prison for being a member of the so-called Islamic State terror group.
The 41-year-old ex-Defence Forces member was found guilty in May of IS membership but was cleared of a separate charge of financing terrorism after a nine-week trial at Dublin’s Special Criminal Court. “It remains State policy that membership of an unlawful organisation should be a criminal offence. It is the law and we must comply with the law,” he said.
Before her conviction in Ireland, Smith was made subject of a UK Home Office-issued exclusion order, preventing her from entering the UK on the grounds of public security.
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