A chemistry teacher determined to fight with Islamic State despite the desperate pleas of his family was prepared to kill in Syria, a court heard.

Jamshed Javeed was among a group of young Muslim men from the Manchester area who became radicalised and "determined to fight Jihad" in 2013, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

He helped his younger brother Mohammed and two other men join the group, also known as Isis, in Syria by providing money for flights as well as clothing and equipment, prosecutor Simon Denison QC said.

Javeed prepared to follow them to the country with another member of the group, Nur Hassan, in November 2013, buying clothing, equipment and flight tickets but he was stopped from travelling by his family, who hid the clothes he had prepared, along with his passport.

However the 30-year-old, who is married with young children, was adamant and even his wife's revelation that she was pregnant with their second child could not deter him, the court heard.

He pressed ahead with his plans but Javeed, from Levenshulme, Manchester, who taught 11 to 16-year-olds at Sharples High School in Bolton, was arrested in December 2013.

He faces sentence after he pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.

In his basis of plea submitted at a previous hearing Javeed claimed he wanted to go to support the ordinary people of Syria, is not an extremist and has never supported "the aims of Isis as now revealed and understood".

Mr Denison said it was clear the action Javeed intended to engage in "would have involved the use of firearms and/or explosives".

He said the case is not about the conflict in Syria, humanitarian aid or Islam, adding: "It is about the defendant assisting others in preparing, and preparing himself, to commit multiple acts of murder in guerilla warfare to advance their religious or ideological cause.

"By his pleas the defendant has accepted that he was intending to commit himself, and assist others to commit, acts of serious violence for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause.

"The evidence from the material in his possession indicates that he was intent on fighting with the terrorist group Isis. It follows that the action he was intent on committing inevitably included acts of murder."

He said it was not for the court to make any judgement on whether Javeed's cause was "just", adding: "Terrorists through the ages have believed in the cause that they fight for. Their acts of terrorism were no less serious."

The defendant's wife Shameila grew suspicious after it emerged his brother had gone.

She texted him asking where his passport was, saying: "You have never used your passport in the past so it is strange that you feel the need to use it now."

In November, Javeed bought a solar charger at Maplins, travel provisions and flight tickets from Manchester to Istanbul.

But his travel plans were thwarted when his family removed his rucksack and passport and he was unable to find it.

The next day his intended travel companion Hassan, 21, was stopped by police and missed his flight. However he travelled the next day, and has not returned.

Around a week later, Javeed spent several hundred pounds on outdoor clothing recommended by Khalil Raoufi, who had travelled to Syria in the weeks before, the court heard, and he applied for a new passport.

Earlier that month Javeed's wife told him she was pregnant with their second child but Mr Denison said the news "did not deter him from going".

In a text exchange, she expressed her disillusionment, saying: "Jamshed you refuse to take on board anyone's opinion unless I've got a gun and I'm in Syria."

The court heard a recording - made by Javeed's sister - of an emotional argument over his hiding of his brother's plans and his own intentions.

In it, his mother accuses him of being a "murderer" for helping his sibling to go.

Javeed says: ""You don't want me to go but I want to. And I am going to go, regardless."

His mother says to him in despair: "If this religion doesn't allow respect for a mother and father ... this is not the religion of my prophet, peace be upon him. Yours is a different religion. You have got into the kuffars (non-believers)."

She goes on: "They are no longer under Islam.They have been taken over by somebody who is a real enemy of Islam. And he is having the young children of mothers killed. He is some tyrant."

Mr Denison said the recording is not important because of any argument about "the true meaning of Islam" but "because it shows the defendant's parents understood that he was going to Syria to fight, as his younger brother had gone.

"Not once in that argument did he deny it, or say anything about humanitarian aid."

Two days after the argument Javeed was arrested. At his home police found a rucksack containing items including 1490 pounds in cash, thermal gloves and combat style trousers.

An expert who analysed Javeed's internet activity concluded that it suggested an interest in violent jihadist extremism.

His web searches included prominent figures such as the radical clerics Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada, as well as the jihadi group Jabhat al Nusra, the court heard.

Files on his mobile phone included material relating to senior al Qaeda figure Anwar al Awlaki and a biography of Osama bin Laden.

On his Twitter account he retweeted messages from Raoufi and posted a link to a video accompanying a poem entitled "Lover of Jihad", which he also sent to his wife.

It is believed that Javeed's younger brother Mohammed, 21, who studied mechanical engineering at John Moores University in Liverpool, may have gone to Iraq with Isis but nothing has been heard of him for more than a year.

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

Mohammed Javeed and Raoufi met up with another former student at the university, Raphael Hostey, when they reached Turkey on their way to Syria. Hostey, 22, remains in the war-torn country, the court heard.

Charles Bott QC, for Javeed, said: "The defendant's position is that he did something that he considered right at the time in very particular circumstances that he would not contemplate doing now.

"He is one of many people who did not know the truth about Isis in the later months of 2013."

Mr Bott said Isis propaganda at that time laid claim to a "broad humanitarian agenda", adding: "It is difficult now to realise that."