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A mentally-ill Scarborough woman who attacked workers at a Canadian Tire in a terrorist incident was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison.

Rehab Dughmosh was found guilty of four terrorism-related charges — including trying to travel to Syria to join ISIL in 2016.

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In June 2017, Dughmosh swung a golf club and a butcher’s knife at store employees while she was draped in an ISIL banner and wearing an ISIL bandanna.

Dughmosh’s mental illness — likely schizophrenia — “played a central role in the attacks at Canadian Tire,” said Justice Maureen Forestell in her judgment.

“Her symptoms were intense and overwhelming at that point. Her illness also played a role in the commission of the offence to leave Canada to participate in a terrorist group because her illness rendered her vulnerable to extremist beliefs,” said Forestell of the 34-year-old first-time offender and mother of two children.