But she tells jury they were 'only together for the sake of the children'

A mother-of-three accused of planning to take her children to join her Jihadi husband in Syria told a court today that she now hates him after learning he had joined a Muslim dating site.

Former supply teacher Sajid Aslam, 34, from Walsall is said to have left his Northern Ireland-born wife Lorna Moore, 33, and their children to join ISIS in August 2014.

She allegedly failed to alert police and even planned to reunite the family in the civil war-ravaged country after she received a text from another couple making the trip saying: 'see you there'.

Northern Irish Islamic convert Lorna Moore, 33, (left at court and right on arrest), who is accused of planning to take her children to join her Jihadi husband Sajid Aslam in Syria

However, the white Muslim convert today told jurors at the Old Bailey in London that she would 'never' have put the lives of her children at risk and said she saw ISIS as a 'terrorist organisation'.

She said that by the time her husband left, they 'were only together for the sake of the children' and told the court Aslam had even subscribed to 'singlemuslim.com'.

Moore said how she had thrown him out of the house years earlier, but was forced to take him back when a Muslim cleric told her she would not get to paradise if she got a divorce.

Asked by her barrister, Rag Chand, how she now feels about Aslam, Moore replied: 'I hate him for what he has done to me and the kids.

'I'm trying to hold things together, he's happily sitting there.'

She continued: 'I can't let him have any contact with my kids'.

Former supply teacher Sajid Aslam from Walsall who is said to have left his Northern Ireland-born wife Lorna Moore, 33, and their children to join ISIS in August 2014

Moore, whose children are aged 10, nine and three, added: 'I grew up in Northern Ireland, I had to check if there was something under the car. It was not a life I wanted for my children.'

The court heard Moore was born in Omagh and grew up an only child in the countryside.

She was raised as a Protestant, attended Manchester Metropolitan University and hoped to become a teacher.

She has taught in several primary schools, but by 2014 Moore was working as a project manager for the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) where she helped young parents, including British soldiers' wives. She had also enrolled on a £4,500 course to train as a Maths teacher.

Moore met Aslam in 2000 while living in university halls of residence and the pair lived a 'typical student life' after falling in love.

She converted to Islam before they got married and moved to Walsall, but Moore said Aslam 'changed' after their first child was born, becoming aggressive.

'It got worse. He started to swear if things had not been done in the house,' she said.

'If toilets had not been cleaned he would become a bit more physical with more name-calling.'

Moore said he would call her a 'f****** white b****', a 'chav' and a 'Gori' (an offensive name for a white person).

'He would grab me by the hair and put my face in the toilet and say 'does that look clean to you,' she continued.

'[He said] if it was not for him I would be a "Gori on a council estate with a can of Carling and a cigarette and with five kids by five different fathers."

She claimed that she worked and did all of the housework while Aslam sat around playing computer games.

But she had enough by 2010 and called police in an attempt to get him out of their home, jurors heard.

'The thing that spurred me on into kicking him out was the police forwarded my details onto victim support and they were calling the land line,' she said.

'I was petrified that if he found out he would hurt me.'

The court heard he lived at his mother's house for six months, but was persuaded to visit the local Muslim Council.

'We saw a Muslim cleric, I wanted a divorce, in Islam it's difficult to get divorced,' she said.

Aslam's group included Jacob Petty (left), who attended a Church of England school and is the son of minister Reverend Sue Boyce (right), in Walsall before converting to Islam aged 15 and leaving the UK to fight in Syria in the summer of 2014, it is claimed

'I was able to speak about certain things, but he said I should be grateful I was not coming in black and blue and said just because I was a white Muslim, it didn't mean I was a special Muslim.

'He said I would have to take him back in the house if I wanted to go to paradise.'

Moore said she was 'devastated', but allowed Aslam back into the family home.

She explained their relationship was not sexual from then on, although they did have a third child after a one-off encounter.

Aslam began teaching and would spend his spare time in a games room in the loft, equipped with a computer games console, pool table and dart board, jurors heard.

Moore said her husband told her he was going on holiday with his sister while she was away at Butlin's, in Skegness from August 22, 2014.

Prosecutors say Aslam flew to Turkey before crossing the Syrian border on August 30 when he sent his friend Ayman Shaukat a coded message to announce he had arrived.

The court has heard how former Church of England schoolboy Alex Nash, 22, and his Muslim wife, Yousma Jan, 20, flew to Turkey on November 4.

Just an hour before another couple, who were intent on making the same trip, arrived at Birmingham Airport to start their journey, Moore received a text message from Jan's phone saying: 'See you there.'

Ayman Shaukat (pictured) is accused of helping Aslam and another man get to Syria to join ISIS

The pair were deported back to the UK by the Turkish authorities and arrested off the plane at Heathrow airport. Nash has since pleaded guilty to preparation of terrorist acts.

Moore had booked return flights for her and her children to Palma, Majorca for November 15 and made an appointment to get passports for her children

Jurors have previously heard she was also making arrangements to rent out her home.

But Moore insisted the text message referred to an arrangement she had made to pick up Nash and Jan from the airport when they returned from holiday.

She said she was considering moving back to Ireland and that she would probably have sold her home had she been planning to move away for good.

Moore is on trial accused of failing to alert police that her husband was going to Syria in 2014 alongside Shaukat, who is accused of helping Aslam and another man travel to the civil war-ravaged country.

They are said to have been part of a group of young Muslims, from Walsall, who left, or planned to leave, the country to join ISIS.

The group included Jacob Petty, who attended a Church of England school, in Walsall before converting to Islam aged 15 and leaving the UK to fight in Syria in the summer of 2014, it is claimed.

In an email with the subject 'New Life', he told his parents, including his minister mother Reverend Sue Boyce, he would never be coming back to the country and is believed to have been killed, aged 25, while using the name Abu Yaqoob Britany.

Petty's school friend, Isaiah Siadatan, left the wife he married in an Islamic ceremony, Kerry Thomason, 24, and their two children to join him.

Police stopped Thomason following Siadatan, and he later sent her an email 'insisting that she should bring their children to him in the Islamic State', said Mr Christopher.

It is not known whether he is still alive, but Thomason has admitted to assisting Siadatan in preparation for his acts of terrorism.

Shaukat, of Walsall, denies two counts of preparation of terrorist acts and one charge of possession of information contrary to the Terrorism Act.

Moore, also from Walsall, denies concealing information about acts of terrorism, and Nash, of Walsall has admitted preparation of terrorist acts.