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Yassin Nassari, 28, a self-styled teacher, businessman and student of Arabic, of Ealing, west London, was found guilty on Friday of having the documents useful for terror.

London-born Nassari was said by the prosecution to be preparing to go abroad to fight non-Muslim soldiers in the anticipation of becoming a terrorist martyr. But the jury cleared him of the more serious offence of having articles for terror. His Dutch wife, Bouchra El Hor, 24, was cleared of failing to disclose information on terror.

Judge Gerald Gordon said he had been described as a "Jack the lad" and there was no evidence to show the material would be used for terror. But it was an offence to possess the material and "the sooner that is understood the better", said the judge.

The couple and their five-month-old baby were stopped at the airport in May last year, as they returned from trips to Syria and Holland.

Nassari's hard drive was found and later discovered to contain plans for building a missile similar to those used by Hamas in the Middle East, the Old Bailey was told. Nassari denied knowledge of the material, including information on explosives, saying he had lent his computer to another man.

A letter from El Hor in which she appeared to be encouraging him to become a martyr was also found in Nassari's possessions. But university drop-out El Hor told the court the letter was a work of fiction and she knew nothing about what Nassari was doing.

Aftab Jafferjee, prosecuting, said: "From the material held on Nassari's hard drive, a viable missile could be manufactured. He held both the ideology and the technology with which that could be achieved."

Nassari had been a student at Westminster University where the welfare officer had described him as "wearing western clothes and enjoying a drink". But after a break from his studies, he had re-appeared, sporting long robes and headgear, referring to himself as emir of the student's Islamic society.

The son of a civil engineer from Belize, he said he was a businessman, teacher and student of Arabic and was one of four high-achieving children.