Mum of dead jihadist is glad he's dead and hopes he's "burning in hell"

The mother of deceased British jihadi Thomas Evans has told of how her 'shy and gentle boy' turned into the monster who 'murdered Christians and torched churches' She says she is glad he is dead and believes he is “burning in hell” for his crimes.

Evans left his home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in 2011 to fight alongside the al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia.In an interview with the Sunday Times, his mother Sally, 57, said

I respected his right to be a Muslim... but eventually he stopped respecting my right to be secular and repeatedly told his brother and I we were destined for hell unless we converted to Islam.

In a phonecall with his worried mother, he told her that he had married a young girl who was '13 or 14' and did not speak English.

He gave her family an old cow so he could marry her. But at least he's happy. I wish I could say the same, but I can't. I'm heartbroken for him and for this young girl,' Sally Evans wrote in her diary on Christmas Eve 2012.

She was horrified that her son, who once made mudpies in their back garden, thought it was okay to 'murder innocent men, women and children out shopping'.

In January this year, she received a phonecall from Evans' wife Sudea who asked for money. She refused on the grounds that she did not want to be seen to support terrorism.
 She found out about his death on twitter after a bloodied picture of him and other terrorists was posted.She said

Imagine discovering the death of your child on Twitter and being both devastated and relieved at the same time.'Devastated because the child you brought into this world was killed after being brainwashed into pursuing a murderous cause. But relieved because the death of your child meant that he could no longer harm innocent people.'

When Sally called Sudea to see how she was dealing with his death, she was shocked to hear he say she was 'happy' because he 'died a martyr fighting for what he believes in'