Parents of Lisa Smith could face custody f ight for their granddaughter

Parents of jihadi husband want access to toddler Rakaya when she comes home

LISA SMITH’S daughter could be taken in by the Irish State if the Isis bride is arrested on her return here.

According to sources, Ms Smith’s daughter could be taken into care and not returned to her family as the child ‘does not know them’.

It is unclear what will ultimately happen to the toddler, who will be DNA tested in Ireland to confirm parentage.

Parents of British jihadist Sajid Aslam, the man Ms Smith claims is the father, have contacted her family in Dundalk to discuss the child. Ms Smith’s family are believed to have refused to communicate with them.

Aslam was previously married to Omagh woman Lorna Moore who was imprisoned for attempting to join her husband in Syria. Ms Moore and Aslam had several children together.

Ms Smith’s family has been preparing for her arrival and believe she will be returned to Dundalk, but locals have demanded that the council prevent her from coming back to her old estate.

Gardaí have reassured locals that she will not be returning to the area ‘for her own safety’.

‘We’ve been told she won’t be coming back here, but who knows?’ a source said. ‘Her family think it’s all fine but there’s a lot of people in Dundalk who Lisa upset. She caused a lot of problems for people in the area.’

Ms Smith – who was in the custody of a Turkish-backed militia – has been moved to Turkish custody and will be returned to Ireland where she is due to be questioned by gardaí.

That could be as early as this week, sources speculated.

Garda sources said a ‘robust’ file – the culmination of years of evidence-gathering on the jihadist – has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Ms Smith was known by the gardaí shortly after she left Ireland in September 2015 when she travelled to Syria to join Isis. She arrived in Raqqa in October 2015.

Associates and family members of the former Air Corps corporal told gardaí that she had travelled to Syria. When they raided her previous address they removed notebooks, electronics and material believed to have been smuggled out of barracks during her time in the Defence Forces.

This material coupled with the media interviews Ms Smith gave – to the Irish Mail on Sunday – in

Syria may contain enough evidence to convict her. Ms Smith who was radicalised long before she joined Isis, could be convicted based on events that happened in Ireland and not, as expected, in Syria, where there is little evidence of her time there.

Defence Forces insiders told the MoS Ms Smith had become embittered after being kicked off the Government jet following an affair with a Defence Forces member.

‘She was demoted after the higher ups found out about the affair. She lost that job and was separated from the married man. She was very bitter about the whole thing.

‘That was around the time she started to lose the plot. She started getting really into the Islam but I think she just wasn’t happy with the way things had panned out for her.’

The Department of Foreign Affairs declined to comment.

‘Smith’s family preparing for her return to Dundalk’

‘Could be convicted on events here not Syria’