2022-07-11
Lawyers ask court not to jail Lisa Smith for Isis membership
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) Lawyers for former soldier Lisa Smith, who travelled to Syria to join Isis in 2014, have asked that before imposing sentence the Special Criminal Court should consider her young child and the "appalling" conditions they suffered while in Syria. Mr O'Higgins said that Ms Smith already served a custodial sentence in Syria when she was held in the Al-Hawl and Ain Issa camps while she waited to be sent home to Ireland.; Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding at the three-judge, non-jury court, adjourned sentencing until July 22.