Not sure about this Daily Mail, but usually when a British newspaper is cited on Daily Rotten, it turns out to be a tabloid.
I figure the shithead started out feeling empty and looking for a sense of purpose in life, and might have done okay had he fallen in with a respectable community-service oriented group. But unfortunately the terrorists found him first.
Yes, it must be rough on his mom right now, but I don't have any sympathy for her. She let her family get all dysfunctional and therefore let this shit happen.