- Mohammed Abdallah, 26, was outed as a specialist sniper after a defector from the terrorist organisation handed his details to a reporter from Sky News
- He travelled to Syria with the help of his wheelchair-bound brother, Abdalraouf
- Mohammed is on trial accused of being a member of ISIS, possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes and possessing £2,000 for terrorist purposes
A former supermarket worker who joined ISIS was outed as a specialist sniper after a defector from the terrorist organisation handed his details to Sky News, a court heard.
Mohammed Abdallah, 26, from Moss Side in Manchester, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of being a member of ISIS, possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes and possessing £2,000 for terrorist purposes.
He denies all the charges.
The court heard how he travelled to Syria with the help of his wheelchair-bound brother, Abdalraouf, who set up a 'central hub' of communications at his home in Manchester.
Mohammed Abdallah is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of being a member of ISIS, possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes and possessing £2,000 for terrorist purposes
This document showed how Mohammed had also fought in Libya against Gaddafi - it also revealed how he had specialised as a 'sniper'
Abdalraouf had been left paralysed from the waist down when he was shot fighting Colonel Gaddafi's regime in Libya in 2011, jurors were told.
Mohammed allegedly went to the war-torn country intending to meet up with three fellow jihadis, including Stephen Gray, 34, a former RAF pilot who converted to Islam after a tour of duty in Iraq.
While three of them managed to cross into Syria in July 2014, Gray was refused entry to Turkey and returned home to Manchester, the Old Bailey heard.
Abdallah, who has dual Libyan nationality, allegedly went on to receive £2,000 in cash, source an AK47 assault rifle, and sign up with ISIS, with the assistance of his 24-year-old sibling based in Manchester.
Mohammed Abdallah, 26, from Moss Side, who was allegedly sent £2,000 in order to pay his way into ISIS
While in Libya, Abdallah allegedly picked up experience as a sniper and handling heavy Russian-made machine guns, according to ISIS documents leaked in 2016.
Prosecutor Mark Heywood QC told jurors how the ISIS file detailing his previous fighting knowledge fell into the hands of a Sky News journalist.
He said: 'In March 2016, Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent with Sky News travelled to Sanliurfa on Turkey's border with Syria, to meet with ISIS defectors facilitated by contacts in the Free Syrian Army.
'One, known only to Mr Ramsay as Abu Hamed, said that he had been a registrar or an assistant in the bureaucracy of ISIS in Syria.'
He handed over a USB stick containing ISIS records which were passed on to Scotland Yard's counter terrorism officers, jurors heard.
Pictured: Disabled Abdalraouf Abdallah (left), who helped his brother travel to Syria to fight for IS and meet former RAF serviceman turned Muslim convert Stephen Gray (right), 32
One of the formal records, which had the ISIS flag in the top right-hand corner, was allegedly a file on the defendant.
In an entry entitled 'any previous Jihadi experience' it stated he fought in Libya against Gadaffi.
He was listed as a 'fighter' specialising in use of 'Dushka' - a Russian heavy machine gun - and as a 'sniper', the court was told.
Mr Heywood told jurors that Abdallah's nickname, date of birth, nationality and previous experience all matched.
The document was 'very important', given the specific biographical detail it contained, he said.
'His specialisation, in other words how he might sell himself as useful to Islamic State, includes that he has experience of using a 'dushka'.
'This is a Russian made heavy machine gun.
'You will see that not only is it true that the defendant had then got that previous experience but that recorded images exist of his doing so together with his brother previously.'
Abdalraouf Abdallah's phone number was also listed as his next of kin contact, jurors heard.
Mohammed was arrested when he returned to the UK via Tunisia in September last year.
He is the first person to be prosecuted after returning from Syria for two years.
Abdalraouf Abdallah and Gray were both arrested in Manchester in November 2014.
Gray went on to admit three terrorism offences, including his attempts to travel to Syria.
In May 2016, Abdulraouf Abdallah was convicted by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court of assisting others in committing acts of terrorism, and terror funding.
Jurors were told that Raymond Matimba, one of the defendant's group, was last known to be with ISIS in Raqqah.
The trial continues.
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