SUSPECT: Ednane Mahmood
A 19-YEAR-OLD man has denied trying to travel to Syria to engage in acts of terrorism.
Ednane Mahmood, of Plane Street, Blackburn, is charged with disseminating a terrorist publication and engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism.
- He appeared at Manchester Crown Court to deny the two charges after being arrested after allegedly attempting to travel to Syria to engage in acts of terrorism.
Wearing a grey suit, he was flanked by a dock officer as three male members of his family watched from the public gallery.
The teenager is accused of providing a service to others to enable them to obtain, read, listen to or look at a terrorist publication between June 1 and November 25 last year.
He is charged with providing links to poems and other propaganda, and at the time of doing so was reckless as whether his conduct would be a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
He was placed on conditional bail until his trial date, October 26 at Manchester Crown Court.Mahmood is further charged with the intention of committing acts of terrorism on or before September 21, 2014 in that he engaged in conduct, namely planning to travel to Syria in order to engage in acts of terrorism.