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Chatham mother Sally Jones widowed as drone strike kills Isis UK jihadist Junaid Hussain

The husband of Chatham mum and Islamic State recruit Sally Jones is believed to have been killed in a US air strike in Syria.

The US military is thought to be close to confirming the death of Birmingham-born computer hacker Junaid Hussain, 21 - the most prominent British member of Islamic State after the man known as "Jihadi John".

Official sources have been quoted as saying they are confident Hussain was killed by a drone strike while travelling in a vehicle in Syria on Wednesday.

Computer hacker-turned jihadi Junaid Hussain pictured on Twitter with a rifle in his hands.
Computer hacker-turned jihadi Junaid Hussain pictured on Twitter with a rifle in his hands.

Chatham's Sally Jones married Hussain after joining Islamic State in 2013, and moved to Syria herself with one of her sons.

A former guitarist with an all-girl rock band, Jones had moved from Chatham to Borough Green, where it is thought she was receiving grocery parcels from a church-organised food bank just weeks before moving to Syria.

Chatham mum Sally Jones was on a Pentagon kill list.
Chatham mum Sally Jones was on a Pentagon kill list.

A Union Flag was torn down, burnt and urinated on in Borough Green earlier this year - and one of the culprits was revealed to be Jones' 18-year-old son, Jonathan Wilkinson.

Jones - who has previously shared her desire to behead Christians with a "blunt knife" - has since been reported to have been spotted back in the UK, in Birmingham.

Reports described Hussain as a key operative for Islamic State, allegedly involved in recruitment and online hacking. He was said to be No 3 on the Pentagon’s “kill list” of Isis targets, and was linked to a failed plot to attack a London Armed-Forces Day parade in June.

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