Major college instructor, 51, is banned from the classroom after she funded suspected jihadists and unfold Islamist propaganda










A instructor has been banned from the classroom after she was discovered to have funded suspected jihadis and unfold Islamist propaganda.

Miriam Sebbagh, 52, despatched a string of funds to suspected terrorists and £2,500 to an Islamist related to Anjem Choudary’s banned Al-Muhajiroun group.

Ms Sebbagh, a instructor at Hunwick Major Faculty in County Durham, was arrested in 2017 on suspicion of terror offences.

She was not charged with any offences however in 2020 counter-terrorism police seized £4,670 in ‘terrorist money’ from a protected after proving it was funding for these she knew have been concerned in terrorism.

Miriam Sebbagh, 52, sent a string of payments to suspected terrorists and £2,500 to an Islamist connected to Anjem Choudary's (pictured) banned Al-Muhajiroun group

Miriam Sebbagh, 52, despatched a string of funds to suspected terrorists and £2,500 to an Islamist related to Anjem Choudary’s (pictured) banned Al-Muhajiroun group

Counter-terrorism police within the North East ‘maintained a excessive stage of concern relating to Ms Sebbagh’s frame of mind, the opinions which she espoused and her actions throughout the educating area’, a instructor misconduct panel report mentioned.

She additionally made ‘quite a few’ different funds to people, charities, abroad accounts and crowd-funded donation websites. The panel banned her from educating, primarily for the ‘safety of pupils’.

Ms Sebbagh was suspended as quickly as Hunwick college was knowledgeable of the allegations after which formally dismissed in October 2018, headteacher Stuart Joyce advised the BBC.

Ms Sebbagh, a teacher at Hunwick Primary School in County Durham, was arrested in 2017 on suspicion of terror offences

Ms Sebbagh, a instructor at Hunwick Major Faculty in County Durham, was arrested in 2017 on suspicion of terror offences

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