British Mum Tareena Shakil Guilty Of Joining IS

The 26-year-old fled her home in Birmingham in October 2014, telling her family she had booked a holiday.

Instead, she took her baby son to Raqqa, the de facto capital of the terror network.

She is believed to be the first British woman to stand trial accused of joining IS in Syria.

Prosecutors argued in court that she went to support the terror group and also encouraged terrorism through her Twitter account - both charges she had denied.

Shakil had said she "had made a mistake" travelling to Syria but had done so simply to find a better life in the caliphate for her and her son.

Up to 2,000 messages and social media updates were analysed in the court case, which the prosecution said proved she was supporting and encouraging terrorism.

In one image found on her phone her young son was pictured wearing a balaclava with an IS logo.

In another, sent from her Whatsapp account, the toddler is shown next to a weapon with a slogan that translated meant "the father of jihad from Britain."

Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale, of West Midlands Police, said: "He was put in substantial danger in a chaotic war zone. That is no place for a young British citizen to be.

He is now back in the UK. He is safe and we wish him a long, successful life."

ACC Beale appealed to people who are concerned that friends or relatives are about to travel to Syria to get in touch with the authorities.

He said: "It provides us with lots of opportunities to try to intervene in advance of that travel.

"To do so before we have to go through a crown court case and potentially send someone to prison for a long time, there are alternatives."

"Travel to Syria is not illegal, but joining proscribed organisations or supporting those organisations is."

After two and a half months living in a house for unmarried women under a restrictive regime in Raqqa, Shakil told her trial that she decided to escape and took a bus and then a taxi towards the Turkish border with her son.

After running across the border she was picked up by Turkish soliders.

She flew back to Heathrow the following month when she was arrested by counter terrorism officers.