A former British soldier has been sentenced to spend seven years and six months in a Turkish jail for fighting against Islamic State militants in Syria, alongside Kurdish militia forces.

Joe Robinson, 25, of Accrington in Lancashire, was convicted of being a member of a terrorist organisation.

He was sentenced on Friday but was still out on bail a day later, the Telegraph understands. The Foreign Office said it was “standing ready” to provide consular assistance.

Robinson, who toured Afghanistan with the Duke of Lancaster’s regiment in 2012, went to Syria in July 2015, days after a terrorist killed 38 tourists including 30 Britons in a mass-shooting in Sousse in Tunisia.

He has said he was inspired to go to protect civilians from Islamic militants, after becoming incensed by gory Isil propaganda videos and what he saw as British inaction in the region.