One in every seven returning Brit ISIS fighters are free and don’t face jail time
Only 54 ex-members of terrorist organisation are prosecuted after return to United Kingdom
ONLY one in seven British IS fighters has been prosecuted since returning home from Syria and Iraq, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
Spy chiefs reckon around 800 Brits have been to the Middle East to fight.
Just 54 of 350 back in the UK have faced court, official figures show.
Only 35 have been prosecuted, while a further 13 cases involving 30 defendants is being processed, the Home Office said.
Experts say the figures will raise questions over domestic security. In the latest breach, Gianluca Tomaselli, 27, was found to be working as a London hospital car park attendant after training to be a jihadi.
The father of two, who grew up in North London, was able to return from Syria despite links to a group that encouraged so-called “Lions” to take up arms in the Middle East.
A source said one problem facing the security services was finding evidence from a warzone for use in trials against British fighters.
He said: “It is not enough to prove someone travelled to Syria, you must also show the visit was linked to terrorism.’’
Among those convicted since returning are Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar, both 22.
The friends, from Birmingham, joined an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Syria.
They were jailed for nearly 13 years.