Lisa Smith’s Islamic State trial admits Facebook messages

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Lisa Smith’s Facebook messages were admitted as evidence in her Islamic State membership and terrorism funding trial at the Special Criminal Court on 8 March 2022.

The court rejected her lawyers’ arguments that the messages breached privacy rights or had been gathered unlawfully.

Smith, from Dundalk, Co Louth, has pleaded not guilty to membership of Islamic State between 28 October 2015 and 1 December 2019.

She has also pleaded not guilty to financing terrorism through a €800 transfer made on 6 May 2015.