‘English teacher’ whose wife was jailed for ‘helping him join ISIS’ moans that he is ‘suicidal’ and ‘misses fish and chips’
Sajid Aslam, 34, wanted on terror charges, complains that he 'longs' to return to his beloved Walsall
A BRITISH man, accused of travelling to Syria to fight for ISIS, has told how leaving Britain has left him feeling suicidal and moaned that he misses fish and chips.
Sajid Aslam was part of a group of three men from Walsall, West Midlands, who were said to have made their way to Syria to fight for ISIS in 2014.
The 34-year-old is currently wanted by British authorities for terrorist activities.
They were helped by fixer Ayman Shaukat, 28, who was jailed for 10 years for aiding radicalised men to reach ISIS territory.
But in a series of emails, whingeing Aslam has described himself as a depressed English teacher who misses his family, Walsall, and fish and chips.
He wrote: "Walsall is known for its many chip shops – and I often long for fish and chips!
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"Walsall is a small, uninteresting, ageing town where nothing exciting ever happens.
"But even after two years away I still feel very homesick and I long to return to my inane little Walsall very much.
"What is my life like? I wouldn't call it a life.
"I don't ever feel happy as such anymore – just varying degrees of depression and sadness, fluctuating between melancholy at best and suicidal at worst."
He also maintains that both he and his wife are innocent.
Aslam said: "I left Turkey intending to help the victims of the war in Syria in any way I could.
"I also took the opportunity to leave whilst my wife was away so as not to give her the chance to talk me out of travelling to a potentially dangerous region, albeit for a good cause.
"I have entered Syria on two occasions, but only to help weak, injured, elderly Syrians fleeing the war successfully leave Syria."
Moore was on a trip to Butlin's with her children when Aslam fled Britain.
Aslam claims he is working as an English teacher in a secondary school in south eastern Turkey, close to the Syrian border.
In posed photos at the 'school,' he is seen typing at a laptop and standing in front of an A4 sheet of paper, stuck to a wall, which reads 'Mr S Aslam, Head of English.'
He said: "I am still a secondary school teacher, I am still teaching English Language, I still work Monday to Friday from 8am – 4pm, just as I did in the UK."
In the emails to his former local newspaper, the Express and Star, Aslam claims he has not returned to Britain as there is a plot against him.
"All MI5, the Counter Terrorism Unit and the police have ever done in regards to my wife and I is made baseless claims and false accusations, without absolutely no evidence to substantiate them whatsoever.
"The British authorities have no interest in evidence which exonerates Muslims – they are only interested in baseless claims which they have absolutely no evidence for to portray every Muslim as an evil terrorist."
At Moore's trial at the Old Bailey for concealing information about her husband's plans to travel to Syria, it emerged that he entered the country to fight for ISIS.
When sentencing Moore, Judge Charles Wide said Aslam 'plainly got there [Syria] and fought, the evidence is clear about that in my judgement.'
The Old Bailey heard, during Shaukat's trial, that he had extensive contact with Aslam via his mobile phone.
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