Mum who encouraged terror attacks spared jail ‘because her children need her’

  A mother-of-five who encouraged terror attacks on the UK after joining a pro-ISIS Facebook group was spared jail after a judge said ‘the sooner you return to your children the better’. Farhana Ahmed, 40, set up a bogus account using the alias Kay Adam before accepting an invitation to the secret group ‘Power Strangers’ which shared ‘tips and tricks’ such as ‘how to carry out a stabbing’. Ahmed became a prominent and respected member of the Power Strangers Facebook…