The British government is to challenge a tribunal ruling that allows a former Irish soldier who joined the ISIS terrorist group to enter the UK.
Lisa Smith, 41, a former member of the Irish Defence Forces, was found guilty in May last year of ISIS membership after a nine-week trial at Dublin’s Special Criminal Court. The same trial cleared Smith of a separate charge of financing terrorism.
Before her conviction, Smith was the subject of a Home Office-issued exclusion order that prevented her from entering the UK from December 2019 on the grounds of public security.
However, Smith successfully appealed the order at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), which concluded the enforcement action in her case would be “incapable of justification.”…