‘I’m a hoarder’ explains accused terrorist

High Wycombe

A teenage Sainsbury’s worker accused of sharing pro-Isis songs with his WhatsApp contacts claims he saved terrorist documents onto his memory card because he is a ‘hoarder’. Iftikar Ali, 19, allegedly used his Sony Xperia smartphone to distribute extremist audio files with titles such as ‘Oh Islamic State you light the world’. After he was arrested on 10 March last year counter terror officers discovered he had typed ‘Kuffar’, ‘Jihad’ and ‘Sharia4UK’ into his phone so much the terms were…

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