Jojo Dixon, son of British Isis convert, ‘alive and fighting in Syria’
Sally Jones’s 12-year-old son is said to have avoided the airstrike that killed his mother

Joe “JoJo” Dixon, the son of the Islamic State convert Sally Jones, is still alive and fighting for the terrorist group in Syria, sources have told the The Daily Telegraph
Jones, also known as the “White Widow”, became one Britain's most wanted criminals after joining the terrorist group in 2013 to marry Junaid Hussain, an IS fighter from Birmingham.
She is believed to have been killed in a CIA airstrike on a convoy in June. JoJo was believed to have been killed with her, but Syrian sources have told the Telegraph he was still alive and has been undergoing IS training in territory held by the group.
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According to anonymous witnesses, “the boy was around 35 miles away in the village of al-Shaafa” during the airstrike.
JoJo, who has been renamed Hamza, “underwent several months of training” in what IS calls its “cubs of the caliphate” camps in northern Syria.
Jones's former partner in the UK claimed JoJo was the boy filmed shooting dead five Kurdish men in an IS propaganda video, The Times reports.
“Children can be easily manipulated,” he said. “He’s an innocent party. I want to know what makes a mother put her child in such a dangerous position.”
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