According to the Sunday Times, Sally Jones, 46, was receiving food from a church-run food bank in Borough Green, near Sevenoaks, just weeks before heading to Syria with one of her children, a 10-year-old son called Jojo.
Jones, a former guitarist in an all-girl rock band, is now married to notorious Islamic State fighter Junaid Hussain, a 21-year-old hacker-turned-jihadist from Birmingham, who runs the IS information and recruitment arm from Syria.
Jones is now believed to work alongside him in the proclaimed IS capital, Raqqa, where it's understood she deals with female Islamic State supporters.
Jones travelled to Syria towards the end of 2013 to join Hussain, whom she met in an online romance. It's claimed she was referred to the Church of the Good Shepherd food bank in early 2013 and continued to receive its support even after she converted to Islam in around May of that year.
One neighbour told the Sunday Times how Jones, who was unemployed at the time, told her over the garden fence one day: "It's so hard. I love a Muslim man and he's fighting jihad."
She reportedly uses the name Umm Hussain al-Britani and her Twitter profile picture features the phrase: "Behead those who insult Islam."
Earlier this week an undercover report revealed Jones appearing to be encouraging fighters to carry out "lone wolf" attacks in the UK on Twitter and online chatrooms.
Jones made contact with journalists posing as an 18-year-old girl on a messaging site, eventually asking them if they intended to either cut off peoples' heads or detonate a bomb, targeting the Queen and the Royal Family during VJ Day commutations.
She reportedly walked the reporters through the procedure step-by-step. When the character appeared hesitant, Jones mentioned that she allegedly had a potential bomber lined up in Scotland.
