New Straits Times

British teen in terror plot jailed for life

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LONDON: A teenager here was jailed for life on Friday for plotting a terror attack, becoming the youngest woman to be sentenced for terrorism offences in Britain. Safaa Boular, 18, who with her mother and elder sister formed the country’s first all-female cell linked to the Islamic State group, will spend a minimum of 13 years in prison. She had planned violent attacks in the capital, using coded language themed around a tea party, after authoritie­s stopped her travelling to Syria to marry an IS fighter she had met online.

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