Man who shared beheading videos jailed

A man who shared videos of prisoners being beheaded has been jailed for eight years.

Mohammed Malik, 24 and from Burnt Oak Terrace, Gillingham, Kent, shared the footage across a number of social media platforms.

He was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Monday, after being convicted of two counts of disseminating a terrorist publication and two counts of expression of support for a proscribed organisation on 10 April.

Counter terrorism officers said the material "posed a risk of radicalising others", who "may go on to carry out acts of terrorism".

Police said they raided Malik's home on 14 January 2025, seizing a phone and hard drives, along with swords, knives and a homemade Daesh flag.

He had edited some of the videos, which had been originally produced by the media wing of Daesh, police said.

Det Ch Sup Oliver Wright, the head of counter terrorism policing in the South East, said: "Malik held an Islamist ideology and had an extensive library of footage from proscribed organisations, terrorist attacks and conflicts.

"He shared extreme Daesh content online with others while claiming these videos - which included beheadings and executions – were artistic and of editorial value but instead they posed a risk of radicalising others and encouraging them to adopt similar extreme views.

"The very real risk is that those who subsequently adopt these extreme views go on to carry out acts of terrorism," he said.

On his release Malik will serve a year on licence, and was also made the subject of a Serious Crime Prevention Order for 15 years.

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