Girl, 16, admits terror offences over plot

A TEENAGE girl will be sentenced next month after admitting her part in a plot to attack police at an Anzac Day parade in Australia.

The 16-year-old, from Manchester, who cannot be named because of her age, used her school computers to look up Islamic State (IS) killer Jihadi John.

She was detained by anti-ter- ror police in April along with Britain’s youngest convicted Islamic terrorist, a boy of 14 from Blackburn, Lancashire, who has already admitted encouraging an IS-inspired terror attack on officers at the annual Anzac parade. He pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey last month to inciting terrorism abroad.

Phone data retrieved by police showed the pair exchanged more than 2,000 WhatsApp messages a day before they were arrested.

Neither of the teenagers can be named because of their age.

The girl, who has no previous convictions or cautions, yesterday pleaded guilty to two offences under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Wearing a headscarf and striped cardigan, she was excused from sitting in the dock at the Youth Court at Manchester Magistrates’ Court and instead sat on a bench in front of the judge, flanked by her mother, an uncle and her solicitor.

The girl spoke only to confirm her name and age and pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of documents on or before April 3 likely to be of use to anyone preparing or committing an act of terrorism. One was a recipe for explosives.

She was granted bail and will be sentenced on October 15.