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Ex-UK boxing champion planned to join IS

A FORMER British and Commonwealth boxing champion has gone on trial in London for planning to travel to Syria to fight with Islamic State jihadists.

A FORMER British boxing champion planned to travel to Syria to fight with Islamic State, a London court has heard.

ANTHONY Small, 33, who won both the British and Commonwealth light middleweight championships in 2009, is accused of trying to flee to the war-torn country after spreading terrorist material online.

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