Ghumra, of Haringworth Road, stood emotionless as the verdict was read out after two hours of jury deliberation.<\/p>\n The court heard he had been working as a pharmacist in Oundle, Northamptonshire and told a customer members of the so-called Islamic State were “not bad people, they’re only defending themselves”.<\/p>\n He “brainwashed” the two children, instructing them to not have non-Muslim friends and asking if they wanted to join the terrorist group or help recruit others to its ranks, the jury was told.<\/p>\n The older boy described being shown “horrible and disgusting” beheading videos, and asked Ghumra “how can you behead people?”.<\/p>\n He said Ghumra replied: “If you truly believe in Allah, you can do it.”<\/p>\n In a police interview played to the court, the younger child said: “He put us on Twitter. He told us to follow whoever he followed. He was following ISIS and really bad people.”<\/p>\n He also said Ghumra gave them business cards – which were shown to the jury – with the boy’s names and email addresses alongside a picture of a rifle.<\/p>\n The jury heard he used a rented house to teach children about jihad and the boys were not allowed non-Muslim friends.<\/p>\n The boy said Mr Ghumra asked him to choose between going to Iraq or Syria, or staying in the UK and “manipulating” other people into supporting IS.<\/p>\n After Ghumra’s arrest at Birmingham Airport in September 2015, a computer was seized showing 1,600 search results for terms including “survival knives” and “bushcraft”.<\/p>\n But when police searched his home, neither the phone containing the beheading video or the video itself were recovered.<\/p>\n Sue Hemming, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Zameer Ghumra tried to brainwash impressionable children with this violent ideology by making one watch beheading videos and urging them both to adopt a hard-line religious outlook.<\/p>\n “The children were brave to give evidence and we would like to thank them for helping to secure this conviction of a dangerous man.”<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Tweets](\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/171D3\/production\/_98157649_9dd27b7d-716b-45f7-aaf1-59319465a528.jpg\")