White Widow Sally Jones was a glamour model decades before she took her son ‘Jojo’ to Syria to become the poster girl of ISIS
WANNABE model Sally Jones glams up for a photo shoot — decades before dying as a poster girl for IS while known as the White Widow.
Jones happily showed off her sultry looks, but quit modelling when she failed to make it big.
She sang in an all-girl punk band and sold cosmetics for L’Oreal. She then converted to Islam after being radicalised over the internet, left her partner and took the younger of her two children to Syria.
The Sun revealed on Thursday how 50-year-old Jones was wiped out by a US drone there, having plotted attacks in the West and recruited scores of UK-based extremists.
A family friend said: “She used to be so confident and outgoing and loved the modelling.
“Sally was drop-dead gorgeous and used to have lots and lots of blokes chasing her.
“The shoots gave her a real outlet and she loved it along with performing in Krunch with the girls.
“It’s a tragedy what happened. She had problems with drugs and just seemed to lose the plot.”
Jones and son Jojo left Chatham, Kent, in 2013 after she fell for Birmingham-born Junaid Hussain.
He died in the city of Raqqa in a drone strike two years later. Jones was killed in June, but news was not released over fears 12-year-old Jojo died too by mistake.
Jones last appeared on social media in September 2016 to deny he had taken part in an execution video — but saying she would have been proud if he had.
She was taken out by a Hellfire missile at a new IS headquarters near the border with Iraq.
Former partner Darren Dixon, believed to be Jojo’s father, said: “I’m f****** glad she’s dead.”
