My Son the Jihadi

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1:45 PM to 2:45 PM

Friday 2 May

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In 2011, Sally Evans discovered her 21-year-old son had travelled from the UK to Somalia to join an Islamist terrorist group. Thomas Evans had been recruited to Al Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate jihadi group behind multiple atrocities, including the 2013 Westgate shopping attack in Kenya. Filmed over a pivotal nine-month period, this programme documents the struggle Sally and her youngest son Micheal faced as they tried to reconcile the Thomas they knew with the jihadi-preaching Islamist he became