All-girl ‘terror gang’

Three charged after flat raided by gun police

THREE women were charged yesterday with conspiracy to murder in the UK’s first alleged all-female terrorist plot.

They included a mother and her daughter, who was shot by police in a dramatic raid last month.

Rizlaine Boular, 21, who was reportedly unarmed at the time, was seriously injured when officers opened fire as they burst into a flat in Willesden Green, North-West London, on the evening of April 27.

She was later heard in the street screaming, ‘Don’t touch me, my body, don’t touch my dress’ as paramedics and police tried to strip off her blood-soaked burka to treat her wounds.

Last night it emerged that her mother, Mina Dich, 43, who is thought to have lived in a £1million flat on the bank of the Thames in Vauxhall, South London, until very recently, is also accused of the same terrorist plot. She was arrested in Kent. A third woman, Khawla Barghouthi, 20, a nursery volunteer from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, who lived at the flat in Willesden Green, has also been charged.

All three have been accused of the preparation of a terrorist act, contrary to section five of the Terrorism Act, and conspiracy to murder.

Sources said last night that they believed it was the first time that a mother and daughter had been charged with terrorist offences.

It would also be the first time that police have foiled an alleged all-female terrorist plot in the UK.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission, the police watchdog, is now investigating why officers shot Boular.

She was initially taken to hospital and was arrested three days later when she was discharged after receiving treatment for the gunshot wound.

A number of men living at the address were also arrested, including a 21-year-old teacher.

Police arrested a total of seven women – the youngest was 18 – and three brothers aged 28, 21 and 16. But they released all of them without further charge, apart from the three women.

Boular, who lives in Central London, is alleged to have conspired together with Dich and Barghouthi to murder a person or persons unknown between April 11 and April 28 this year.

She is also charged with preparing terrorist acts between April 11 and April 28. Dich and Barghouthi are charged with assisting Boular to commit acts of terrorism and conspiracy to murder between the same dates.

They were remanded into custody and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court later today.

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: ‘Three women have today been charged with the preparation of a terrorist act, contrary to section five of the Terrorism Act, and conspiracy to murder.’

‘Conspiracy to murder’