18-year-old woman jailed for life over plot to bomb the British Museum
Safaa Boular was the final member of Britain’s first all-female terror cell to be sentenced at the Old Bailey
An 18-year-old who became one of the youngest women to be convicted of terrorism offences in the UK has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 13 years.
A jury found that Safaa Boular plotted with her partner, Naweed Hussain, an Islamic State militant, to launch a grenade and bomb attack on the British Museum in Bloomsbury, central London.
She was also found guilty of an attempt to travel to Syria to join IS. She was the final member of Britain’s first all-female terror cell to be sentenced at the Old Bailey, after the convictions of her mother, Mina Dich, 44, older sister, Rizlaine Boular, 22, and family friend Khawla Barghouthi, 21.
The court heard that Boular met Hussain, from Coventry, who was 30 and a known IS recruiter, online when she was 16.
They were in contact for three months before they declared their love for each other and had what she regarded as an online Islamic marriage.
Duncan Atkinson, the prosecutor, told jurors that Boular wanted to marry Hussain and carry out a suicide attack in Syria.