Woman denies terror charge

Youths from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association Huddersfield taking part in the Great British Spring Clean in Spaines Road and Lower Fitzwilliam Street Volunteers gather around the Lindley ward for a mass community clear-up. Members of The Church of Latter-day Saints group in the park and, right, Salendine Nook scout group cleaning up woods off Lindley Moor Road by counter terrorism police, who arrested her husband in May 2014.

Computer equipment was seized and an investigation into Kaya’s activity on the internet began later the same year, the court heard.

Mr Davis said monitoring of Kaya’s Twitter account, named Justice and with the handle @GardenofGold, showed that the link to alBaghdadi’s speech, Even If The Disbelievers Despise Such, was retweeted on November 13 2014.

The barrister said: “The message was aimed at encouraging anyone who listened to or read it to participate in terrorist activity.”

Mr Davis said the speech stated there was an obligation upon Muslims to engage in violent jihad and that anyone not behaving in MORE than 100 people took part in a giant community clean-up. Members of local churches, scout groups and residents’ organisations armed themselves with litter pickers and refuse bags to wage war on rubbish blighting Lindley village, Reinwood, Quarmby, Salendine Nook, Mount and Lindley Moor. The clean-up was organised by Lindley ward Lib Dem councillors Cahal Burke and Richard Eastwood to tie in with national initiative The Great British Spring Clean. The councillors also used a stencil and environmentallyfriendly spray to apply a “Clean It Up” logo to pavements in a bid to deter dog fouling. that way would face divine retribution.

The court heard that the seized computer was used to search for and view information about radical Islamic preachers, supporters of IS, people who had travelled to Syria and footage of explosions and vicious attacks.

Mr Davis said the person using the computer also visited a number of Twitter accounts which were “generally supportive of Islamic State”.

The barrister said the @GardenofGold Twitter account posted “well-written, eloquent tweets” and sometimes engaged in conversations with other social media users, including an English Defence League supporter.

Kaya was arrested and interviewed on October 21, 2015.

Clr Burke said: “We were really pleased with it. We are thinking of doing it twice a year. There was a great response, which shows the community spirit and willingness of local residents to get involved.”

Meanwhile, 20 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association Huddersfield took part in Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean by collecting litter left in the Spaines Road and Lower Fitzwilliam Street areas.

Youth leader Nida ul Haq said: “Our members have enjoyed living in Huddersfield for many, many years and so any opportunity to help our local community is much welcome.

“Cleaning the streets of Huddersfield also presents us with an opportunity to become better Muslims as cleanliness is an integral part of our faith.”

Mr Davis said the defendant told police the computers and phones seized from her home would not have any terrorist material on them and she used Twitter “to see what was going on in the world”.

The court heard that Kaya said no-one else used her account so she was the only person responsible if any material was found.

In a second interview in January 2016, Kaya made no comment but provided a prepared statement in which she said she had never posted anything on her Twitter account and believed the account had been hacked, the jury was told.

Kaya denies one charge of dissemination of a terrorist publication likely to encourage people to participate in terrorism.

The trial was adjourned.