Dundalk woman Lisa Smith says she doesn't think she should be tried

Lisa Smith, the Dundalk woman currently detained in a Syrian camp, has told the Irish Mail on Sunday that she doesn't think she should be tried, should she return to Irealnd.

In an interview with the Irish Mail on Sunday, Miss Smith said: "The only thing I did was come here and if that’s my crime, like a lot of other people’s, for coming here and realising I made a mistake."

According to the Mail, Smith is now in among 76,000 other men, women and children in a Syrian camp near the town of Sinjar.

In her interview, Smith said that they were told that: "we would be in the camps for two months and after that we would have somewhere to go, to Turkey, or back to our countries."

When asked why she moved from the Irish Defence Forces to ISIS, Smith said that she saw it as "just a job, just a career"

"I was very depressed in my life and I didn’t want to live any more", she said. "I guess I was suicidal. If you don’t get answers, you end up killing yourself."

"Then I came across Islam, I learned about it through Facebook. I watched debates and I read the Koran and then, for me, that was it. I knew this was the truth in life. This is the path I want to take."

Smith admitted in the interview that she made a rushed decision to move to Syria: 

"I rush into everything. I didn’t take my time. I left my job, I did everything so fast. My family thought I was going through a phase. They said, “She’s going to regret this,” But I didn’t regret it."

Read the full interview here