Case raises issues around State’s responsibility to her and child
echoed those comments, telling RTÉ: “She was a lovely lady, always very engaged and very interested.”at 19 as a private in the Army’s 27th Infantry Battalion. She initially applied for a role in the Military Police but failed a marksmanship course.
In the 2011 newspaper interview, she said she wanted to leave “because my role as a Muslim woman is to be a housewife, or to get a job working with other women. Working with men is not a good thing for a Muslim woman.” But they lost track of her when she travelled to Tunisia in 2014 or 2015. From there, she travelled to Isis-controlled territory in Syria when she began a relationship with a UK national who was later killed.
One issue which will be examined by gardaí is whether Smith transferred money to Islamic State before leaving or while there. Any such offence would be relatively straight-forward to prove, based on bank records.
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