Lisa Smith trial to proceed on Islamic State membership charges

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Lisa Smith’s trial on charges of Islamic State membership and financing terrorism will proceed at the Special Criminal Court after judges rejected her application to dismiss the charges, in a judgment delivered on 24 January 2022.

Smith is charged with membership of Islamic State between 28 October 2015 and 1 December 2019, and with financing terrorism by sending €800 to a named man on 6 May 2015. The evidence and arguments in the dismissal hearing cannot be reported under the Criminal Justice Act 1999.