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Saturday, 27 August 2016

Canadian twins plead guilty to terrorism, face jail time

Ashton and Carlos Larmond, two Canadian twin brothers who hoped to join the Islamic State group, pleaded guilty to "terrorism" offenses and received sentences of 17 and seven years, respectively

Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian twin siblings who had planned to join the Islamic State (IS) gathering conceded to "fear mongering" offenses and were sentenced on Friday to jail terms, prosecutors reported.


The siblings, Ashton and Carlos Larmond, both 25, got sentences of 17 and seven years, individually.

A third man, Suliman Mohamed, 23, confronts a seven-year term for planning with the twins.

In court, prosecutor Douglas Curliss portrayed Ashton as the "coordinator and chief" of an unspecified radical plot.

Police affirmed that he had asked others to wage jihad after his mom alarmed the powers of his arrangement to go to Syria to join the IS gathering in 2013 and the administration repudiated his international ID.

Later, on the day in October 2014 when a shooter gave dead a formal monitor and endeavored to storm the parliament working in Ottawa, Ashton purportedly boasted to a covert specialist that he had "greater arrangements."

Inside hours of his capture in January 2015 after an extensive examination, his sibling Carlos was secured as he loaded onto a flight at Montreal's universal air terminal.

Carlos recognized in court that he was wanting to join the IS gathering in Syria.

At the season of their capture, the trio were introduced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a radical "bunch."

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