A US airstrike which killed British born ISIS recruiter Sally Jones is confirmed to have also killed her 12-year-old son who she took to Syria in 2013.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A US airstrike which killed British born ISIS recruiter Sally Jones is confirmed to have also killed her 12-year-old son who she took to Syria in 2013.



Former L’oreal worker Jones, dubbed the ‘White Widow’, then 45, met a British-Pakistani from Birmingham, Junaid Hussin,who was 19, online and fled to Syria to marry him, taking her son, who would have been nine at the time, with her.



Hussin, who was jailed in 2012 for hacking into Tony Blair’s assistant’s email and publishing his personal information online, was killed in a US drone strike in 2015 aged 21.



Joe Dixon, nicknamed Jojo, was born in Kent just before Christmas in 2004 to Jones and Darren Dixon, who separated from her shortly after Jojo’s birth.



She also had another son from a previous relationship, who remains in the UK.



Jones and her son eventually moved to Borough Green and neighbours told The Sunday Times that he seemed like a ‘nice little kid’ who loved computer games and was ‘devoted to his mother’.



After being taken to Syria to join the ‘califate’, Jojo was renamed Hamza Hussin al-Britani and appeared in Isis propaganda videos which appeared to show the young boy shooting kneeling prisoners in the head.



A informed source said that they are ‘99.9 percent certain they were both killed’ as they were travelling in a convoy along the Syria-Iraq border in June last year.



The remaining doubt is because of the difficulty of collecting DNA specimens from a war zone.



His mother came out of hiding to deny it was her son in the videos but Mr Dixon has since confirmed that it was his son.



Jojo’s death is the first death of a western child in Syria by a coalition airstrike.



His death is now likely to heighten concerns for other British children who have been taken to Syria by their parents to join ISIS.



Last week a bouncy-castle salesman from Walthamstow, east London was named by US officials as a ‘specially designated global terrorist’, a status which was also given to Jones before her death.



Siddhartha Dhar, 33, travelled to Syria with his wife children in September 2014, despite being on bail for alleged terrorism offences.











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