A judgement is due today in the case of a former Irish soldier accused of being a member of ISIS and of financing terrorism.
Lisa Smith denies the charges and her lawyers applied to the court to have them dropped after the trial ended back in March.
During her lengthy trial before the non-jury Special Criminal Court, the judges heard details of how Lisa Smith left the Irish Defence Forces after converting to Islam.
It is the prosecution’s case that she was later radicalised online and that she travelled to Syria where she was a member of ISIS between October 2015 and December 2019.
She is also accused of financing terrorism through an 800e Western Union transfer in 2015 to help an ISIS fighter.
Ms Smith, a 40yo mother-of-one from Dundalk, denies both charges.
An application to have the charges against her dismissed was made after the trial ended in March.
The court will reconvene today to deliver what’s expected to be a lengthy judgement.
