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A British schoolgirl who wanted to travel to Syria to work as a nurse for ISIS has been jailed.

Police were alerted to Sandeep Samra’s plans after she asked teachers to sign her passport photos.

The smirking 18-year-old also told them: “Miss, you are going to see me in the news.”

Samra, from Coventry, West Mids, was brought up Sikh before converting to Islam behind her family's back aged 15.

Online messages showed she was “going for death” and intended to die for ISIS in Syria.

(Image: SWNS.com)

(Image: SWNS.com)

She wrote: “I want to go, Inshallah [God willing] if it's still possible - at least our nurses can help soldiers and stuff.”

Devoutly religious Samra applied for her first passport in September 2015 when she was just 16.

But it was handed to the police after teachers became concerned and reported her to the Prevent programme.

The teen applied again in June last year before she was arrested the following month.

(Image: SWNS.com)

When police seized her phone they discovered messages detailing her plans to join ISIS in Syria.

Samra admitted attempting to travel to Syria and engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts.

She was jailed for three-and-a-half years at Birmingham Crown Court earlier today.

Judge Melbourne Inman QC told her: “You were deeply radicalised and in possession of the most extreme material.

“Fortunately, you were found and stopped before you were ever able to in fact travel.”