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Chatham woman Sally Jones states pride after Isis husband's death

00:00, 15 September 2015

updated: 10:57, 15 September 2015

Chatham mum turned jihadi widow Sally Jones is thought to be behind a Twitter account praising her husband Junaid Hussain after he was killed in a US air strike.

The 45-year-old former punk rocker went online to post a series of statements in support of Hussain, the Birmingham born computer hacker and jihadi recruiter who died after a drone targeted the car he was travelling in near Raqqa, Syria last month.

"I'm proud my husband was killed by the biggest enemy of Allah, may Allah be pleased with him, and I will never love anyone but him," she wrote, using the Twitter name UmmHussainBritaniya.

Computer hacker-turned jihadi Junaid Hussain pictured on Twitter with a rifle in his hands.
Computer hacker-turned jihadi Junaid Hussain pictured on Twitter with a rifle in his hands.

She added: "The Crusaders think they win when they kill us. They don't WE WIN."

In response to a fellow jihadi widow she wrote: "yes uhkty may Allah accept your husband too into the highest ranks of janna & jzk for being here for me xxxxx"

The tweets were posted last night, before the account was suspended.

Jones married Hussain after joining Islamic State in 2013, and moved to Syria herself with one of her sons.

Chatham mum Sally Jones was on a Pentagon kill list.
Chatham mum Sally Jones was on a Pentagon kill list.

A former guitarist with an all-girl rock band, Jones had previously moved from Chatham to Borough Green, where it is thought she was receiving grocery parcels from a church-organised food bank just weeks before moving to Syria.

A Union Flag was torn down, burnt and urinated on in Borough Green earlier this year - and one of the culprits was revealed to be Jones' 18-year-old son, Jonathan Wilkinson.

Reports described Hussain as a key operative for Islamic State, allegedly involved in recruitment and online hacking.

He was said to be No 3 on the Pentagon’s “kill list” of Isis targets, and was linked to a failed plot to attack a London Armed-Forces Day parade in June.

Jones - who has previously shared her desire to behead Christians with a "blunt knife" - is also believed to have dismissed recent reports to that she has been spotted back in the UK, in Birmingham.

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