A mother-of-three was found guilty of a terrorism offence after she retweeted a speech by an Islamic State leader to her 30 followers.

Mary Kaya,from Batley, West Yorkshire, had around 30 followers on her Twitter account when she retweeted the link to an audio clip by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The 57-year-old had denied posting the link and claimed her Twitter account was used by someone else.

But a jury at Leeds Crown Court found her guilty of distributing a terrorist publication likely to encourage people to participate in terrorism.

The court had heard that Kaya's Twitter account was monitored after her husband was arrested during a raid by counter-terrorism police at a previous address in Dewsbury.

The account, named Justice and with the handle @GardenofGold, showed that the link to al-Baghdadi's speech, Even If The Disbelievers Despise Such, was retweeted on November 13, 2014.

Handing her a suspended jail sentence yesterday, Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier QC, labelled the speech "a dreadful diatribe" but said that apart from the content of her Twitter account there was no evidence that Kaya held radical views or had tried to radicalise others.