A mum from Chatham who became one of the world's most reviled terrorist recruiters after settling in the Islamic State is reportedly desperate to the return to the UK.

Sally Jones was put on the Pentagon's kill list after she and her extremist husband Junaid Hussain were responsible for planning a dozen terror plots.

A friend in Raqqa, known as Aisha, told Sky News that the 49-year-old mother-of-two wants to return to Britain two years after the death of her husband in an American drone strike.

"She was crying and wants to get back to Britain, but Isis is preventing her because she is now a military wife," Aisha said.

"She told me wish to go to her own country."

Jones, a former punk band guitarist, joined Islamic State in 2013 after marrying Hussain.

The American government then named her as a “specially designated global terrorist” on its Federal Register.

Hussain was regarded as the most prominent British member of Islamic State after the man known as “Jihadi John”. He was killed in 2015.

In 2016 Jones repeatedly warned of terror attacks in London. Using Twitter, she wrote: "To be honest I wouldn’t go into Central London through June... or even July well to be honest I wouldn’t go there at all especially by Tube.”

And: "ENGLAND.....> BOOM :)." Her Twitter account was later deleted.

Jones had also suggested she would be willing to carry out a suicide mission of her own, said she wanted to behead Christians with a blunt knife and encouraged extremists to launch terror attacks on British soil.