IN a dramatic family argument, Jamshed Javeed's parents threatened to testify against their son after he helped younger brother Mohammed fly to Syria to fight.

The full details of the emotional discussion were revealed in court as Javeed, aged 30, was jailed for six years for preparing to go to Syria to fight with Islamic State.

His plans were foiled when his family to hid his passport.

When he applied for a new one, undeterred, police arrested him in December, 2013.

In the family row, which was recorded, Javeed's mother, father and sister plead with him to change his mind, and say they will testify against him for encouraging his brother Mohammed to go to Syria.

In response to the threat, he says "do it" repeatedly and says he might do "something stupid".

Nothing has been heard from Mohammed for more than a year and it is thought he may have now travelled on to Iraq to fight.

The conversation ends with Jamshed's sister threatening to call the police and telling her brother to "get out".

Javeed says he came round to see his parents because they are family, but said other things are "more important".

He said: "I'm not going to just cling on to this whole family thing."

His family questions his change of thinking, to which he replies: "All of a sudden I'm not like that 'cause I'm brainwashed, I'm tapped, I'm whatever. I'm blind, that's why."

It is believed that Javeed's younger brother, who studied mechanical engineering at Liverpool John Moores University, might have gone to Iraq with Islamic State but nothing has been heard of him for more than a year.

His travel companion Khalil Raoufi, who also attended Liverpool John Moores, was killed in February last year, a day after his 20th birthday.

The pair met up with another former student at the university, Raphael Hostey, when they reached Turkey on their way to Syria. Hostey, 22, is still in the war-torn country.