Woman fed boy, 3, poison while plotting to take him to see ISIS jihadi father in Syria but was given public cash in battle to keep any alleged terror connections secret
Taxpayer-funded legal aid went on lawyers representing her as she tried to stop Scotland Yard gaining access to her files
A WOMAN poisoned a three-year-old child while plotting to take him to live with his jihadi father in Syria.
She repeatedly contaminated an intravenous tube which was being used to treat the little boy.
She was eventually investigated — and it can be revealed how she was given tens of thousands of pounds from the public purse as she battled to keep any alleged terrorist connections secret.
The woman planned to quit Britain and take the boy to his father, who is said to be fighting alongside ISIS in Syria.
Taxpayer-funded legal aid went on lawyers representing her as she tried to stop Scotland Yard gaining access to her files. But a High Court judge decided they should be given to police and prosecutors.
There was a clear public interest in making the documents available to the Met Police and security services, the judge said.
He wrote: “The alleged offences which are the subject of investigation by the MPS are offences under the anti-terrorism legislation.
“Such alleged offences are inevitably serious and the consequences are potentially grave and the subject of legitimate public concern.”
A judge has now ruled that the documents must be handed to British security services — but said they cannot go to foreign intelligence agencies such as the CIA.
Details of the case emerged in a High Court judgment released last month which revealed details of her treatment of the child, known only as Z.
Mr Justice MacDonald wrote: “She had caused Z to become ill on a number of occasions by administering a drug to him and by contaminating an intravenous cannula.
“The woman was in contact with the father to a far greater extent than she had admitted.
“It is likely that the father is in Syria and is involved in terror related activity, that the woman was aware of and that the father planned that she and Z would travel to Syria to join him and to live there.”
Last night Tory MP David Morris said: “Where there is a clear public interest to assist the security services questions must be raised over how public money is spent.”