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Youngest woman convicted of plotting UK terror attack jailed
ITV ^ | 3 August 2018 at 4:18pm

Posted on 08/05/2018 9:58:26 PM PDT by robowombat

The youngest woman convicted of plotting a terror attack on British soil has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.

Safaa Boular, 18, became the final member of Britain’s first all-woman terror cell to be imprisoned when Judge Mark Dennis QC sentenced her at the Old Bailey on Friday.

She hid her Islamic State-inspired plans in coded conversations about preparations for an innocent Mad Hatter’s tea party after being seduced online by a jihadi fighter while sitting her GCSEs. Sorry, this content isn't available on your device. It appeared she knew what she was doing and acted with open eyes Judge Mark Dennis QC Judge Dennis rejected claims she had entirely renounced her “deeply entrenched” Islamist views and downplayed the extent grooming played in her radicalisation.

“In my view there’s insufficient evidence upon which it would be safe to conclude at this stage that the defendant is a truly transformed individual and the serious risk that she has posed hitherto has now evaporated,” he said.

“However much she may have been influenced and drawn into her extremism, it appeared she knew what she was doing and acted with open eyes.”

Boular was inexpressive as she was jailed for two counts of preparing terrorist acts, which she was found guilty of at a trial.

She had been lured in by IS fighter Naweed Hussain, originally from Coventry, but was prevented from joining the 32-year-old who she purported to marry in an online ceremony. He was later killed in a drone strike.

Naweed Hussain Islamic State fighter Naweed Hussain Credit: Metropolitan Police/PA Instead of committing a terror attack in Syria, she discussed a grenade and gun attack on the British Museum and played what the judge called a “leading role” in an “advanced plan”.

But online MI5 role-players uncovered their plans and the Boular family home in Vauxhall, south London, was bugged.

It was the undercover agents’ work that meant the terrorist attack was “frustrated and prevented”, the judge said.

“This was not entrapment by the role-players but a display of commendable care and skill in tracking terrorist activity,” he added.

While in custody for trying to travel to the war zone, she passed the baton to her older sibling Rizlaine, 22.

And, in coded telephone calls, they discussed a traditional English tea party with an Alice In Wonderland theme.

Rizlaine Boular set about arming herself and scouting out targets around the Palace of Westminster, all the while being aided by her mother Mina Dich.

The older sister shared her plans with Khawla Barghouthi, 21, and even practised the knife attack at the friend’s home in Willesden, north-west London.

Defending Safaa Boular, Joel Bennathan QC said she had been “groomed” into radicalism when she was 15 but has now shunned Islamist extremism and no longer follows the Muslim faith.

“The environment in which this young woman became drawn into radical Islamist terrorism was a family which had the combination of a neglectful mother and an older, very radicalised sister,” he said.

The defendant is “no longer that type of person”, he said, adding: “That’s the point about teenagers, they can change dramatically and fast.”

After her arrest on April 27 last year, Rizlaine was jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years, having admitted preparing acts of terrorism.

Dich, 44, was imprisoned for six years and nine months with an additional five years on licence for helping her.

Barghouthi, who pleaded guilty to failing to alert authorities, was jailed for two years and four months.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Syria; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 08/05/2018 9:58:26 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat
jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.

Could someone explain that to me?

2 posted on 08/05/2018 10:02:17 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: robowombat

>>The defendant is “no longer that type of person”, he said, adding: “That’s the point about teenagers, they can change dramatically and fast.”

One day they want to massacre dozens of lowly kufir with grenades and guns and the following day “meh”.

not buying it.


3 posted on 08/05/2018 10:02:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Cowboy Bob

Modern justice.

The girl who renounced Islam is in great danger.


4 posted on 08/05/2018 10:04:24 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: robowombat

Jailed for life, out at Christmas on good behavior.


5 posted on 08/05/2018 10:06:26 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: robowombat

Must 13 years. even islam terrorist wpmen get the pussy pass.


6 posted on 08/05/2018 10:38:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Brit judicial speak for “meh” , no big deal, what’s YOUR problem.


7 posted on 08/05/2018 10:41:28 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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To: robowombat

I hope she doesn't survive 13 years. She doesn't look evil, but she is, and decent people deserve safety from those who want to commit mass murder.

8 posted on 08/06/2018 2:52:14 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Cowboy Bob

Sure; she was sentenced to 13 years in prison.


9 posted on 08/06/2018 4:04:54 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: robowombat

Now she can praise ulluh for at least 13 years while planning her next mass murder.


10 posted on 08/06/2018 4:32:04 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: robowombat

So, when will they hang her.


11 posted on 08/06/2018 5:39:44 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: robowombat

Breaking those glass ceilings one jihad at a time.


12 posted on 08/06/2018 6:00:41 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Not eligible for parole for 13 years, after which she gets recurring parole reviews. She is unlikely to actually stay in jail for life, unless she keeps making (serious) trouble while inside.


13 posted on 08/06/2018 6:01:47 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Pollster1

Guilty!


14 posted on 08/06/2018 6:02:33 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: robowombat
Impressive work by MI5 to break this cell. Detailed account here:

The radicalisation of Safaa Boular

15 posted on 08/06/2018 8:41:43 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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