Two brothers from London have become the first Britons to be jailed for alleged conspiracy to attend "terrorist training" in Syria, London's Metropolitan Police said Wednesday.

Mohommod Hassin Nawaz, 31, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and his 23-year-old brother Hamza Nawaz, both from Dirleton Road, Stratford, east London was sentenced to three years in prison after appearing at the Central Criminal Court, known as Old Bailey in London Wednesday.

They are the first British citizens to be sentenced for terrorist offences after returning from Syria, the Metropolitan Police said.

Between January 2012 and September 2013, the two men conspired together to attend a place used for terrorist training knowing or believing that instruction or training would be provided there wholly or partly for purposes connected with the commission or preparation of acts of terrorism, police said.

The brothers were stopped at Britain's Dover port on Sept. 16 last year, after arriving at the port on a ferry from Calais of France.

The men and their vehicle, a silver Peugeot 206, were searched, and police found a number of significant items, including five rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, "numerous" mobile phones and a SIM card containing images, video clips and text messages relating to the training camps.

The brothers were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the "commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism" under British anti-terror law, according to the Metropolitan Police.

Counter terrorism investigators found that the brothers traveled to Syria between Aug. 25 and Sept. 16 in 2013 to attend a camp in order to "receive training in skills that could be used for the purposes of terrorism."

Officers found communications on their phones indicating that they had attended a terror training camp located in the Latakia Province of Syria.

In May, the two men pleaded guilty to the crimes.

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