A Primark security guard who posted Islamic State (IS) propaganda videos and shared images of himself masked and wielding a large knife has been jailed. Luqmaan Ahmed, 24, was given a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for what a judge said were ‘horrific’ videos. Manchester Crown Court heard the first clip – posted to Ahmed’s Instagram in September 2022 – featured fighters in combat fatigues carrying guns with captured prisoners and a black IS flag waving in the background. Ahmed also published two Instagram 'stories' – videoclips which only remain online for 24 hours – showing executions and suggesting support for the extremist terror group. Ahmed, of Rusholme, Manchester, was sentenced on Monday after being convicted of three charges of encouraging terrorism at a trial in July. The court heard the fanatic posted the September 2022 video clip while awaiting sentencing for a charge of encouraging terrorism – after posting similar material encouraging people to fight in Syria for Al Qaeda-linked group four years earlier, when he was a teen. He and another youth posted propaganda videos made by 'armed militia' opposing the Assad regime in Syria on Instagram having become obsessed with the war following the Manchester Arena attack in 2017. He had allegedly been encouraging others to join and fight for the al-Qaeda-linked Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham militant group, as well as disseminating numerous pro-jihadist training videos via his Instagram and WhatsApp accounts. Primark security guard Ahmed attended Burnage Academy, the same school as Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi