Three accused of plotting `first all-female terror knife attack in Westminster`
Three women, including a mother and daughter, have appeared in court charged in connection with what is thought to be the first all-female alleged British-based terror plot.
Three women, including a mother and daughter, have appeared in court charged in connection with what is thought to be the first all-female alleged British-based terror plot.
Londoners Rizlaine Boular, 21, her mother Mina Dich, 43, and associate Khawla Barghouthi, 20, were charged in relation to the alleged planning of a suspected knife attack in the Westminster area of London.
The three appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday (May 11), flanked by three police officers and three suited officials.
The trio, charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing a terrorist act, were remanded in custody.
Armed officers raided Ms Barghouthis home in Willesden, north west London, on April 27, where they arrested her and shot Ms Boular, believed to be the first woman shot by counter-terrorism forces in Britain.
Ms Boular was arrested three days later at St Marys Hospital in Paddington when she was discharged.
Ms Boulars mother, Ms Dich, was detained in Kent on the day of the raid in the capital.
The three women are accused of conspiring together to murder a person or persons unknown between April 11 and April 28, 2017.
Ms Boular is also charged with engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts between the same dates, while Ms Dich and Ms Barghouthi are charged with intending to assist her.
Both Ms Boular and Ms Dich wore burkas and lifted their veils to show their eyes when requested to do so by chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot, while Ms Barghouthi wore a hijab.
The trio were remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on May 19.