My Son, the Jihadi

[ImperialBlether]

Anyone watching it?

Just me, then, eh?

Awful.

Heartbreaking for his lovely mum.

I'm watching, can't decide how I feel about it really

I feel so sorry for the woman.

To be married at 14 is well unthinkable!

I'm watching it too.

I feel so sorry for his Mum-she must be heartbroken and his brother too

I usually avoid any programmes about terrorists etc (depressing), but this is heart wrenching. They seem like an ordernary family, so how did Tom get caught up in it ( missed the first bit). I think the programme is as much about the mother's heartbreak, as the son.

I have a teens, only a few years younger then When Tom converted. It's scary to watch in that respect.

Really, really sad.

Oh god imagine seeing that picture of your child !

Am watching it too. So sad for the mum just what could she of done

I was so shocked he'd died. I didn't know that's what had happened. The poor mother and those people banging on her door all the time - terrible.

what a remarkable women

I'm watching -it's gut - wrenching.

I missed the start - who is the black guy and from what agency is he?

Oh god, finding out those things he'd done. Terrible.

She is remarkable.

Goodness me that was hard to watch

The black guy is from an organisation who try to de-radicalise affected people. His group were guiding the mum on what to say to Tom.

I watched it. How calm that woman remained. Even in the immediate period after his death, with press banging on her door! I would have been a wreck. That poor family. It was heartbreaking to watch. And sickening to hear about and see the murders.

I felt little sympathy, particularly when I heard he's married a child. Then I saw the picture of him dead.

My heart broke for his mum. He'll always be her baby. It could be any of us.

Oh thanks, River. So he's not government? He seems like he could do with more funding and assistance.

So, so sad. When she read the eye witness reports of what he'd done, I just sobbed. Poor woman.

Absolutely heartbreaking to watch, his mum and brother seemed so lovely. I kind of remember hearing that he'd died but when they showed the picture of his body and you could immediately tell it was him, I was shocked. What a brave lady she is

I'm watching it now. That poor family.

"I didn't imagine to feel so empty, so lost, so overwhelming sad."

Poor poor lady.
Stupid stupid boy.

He was beyond stupid. If there is such a thing as evil then that was what he was.

I wonder if he actually did convert to Islam in the true sense, that he believed. I know i tried all sorts of fads as a teen a) to get a reaction from my parents, i wanted to shock/annoy them and b) i thought it's get me some friends as i didnt have many. I know boys can tend to mature later and also this guy suffered a huge abandonment at a crucial time in his life so perhaps he was just so desperate to fill thatt gap and be somewhere that he wasnt rejected.