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16-year-old Manchester girl pleads guilty to terrorism charges (27 August 2015)

Date: 27/08/2015
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, 16-year-old Manchester girl pleads guilty to terrorism charges

A 16-year-old schoolgirl from Manchester has pleaded guilty to two offences under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 at Manchester Magistrates’ Youth Court.

Manchester Evening News reports that the charges state that on or before 3 April, 2015, the teenager possessed a document containing information of a kind likely to be of use to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism, namely a recipe for explosives and the same charge relating to a second document.

The court heard the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been in frequent contact with a 14-year-old boy from Lancashire – the UK’s youngest jihadi terrorist arrested in connection with a plot to disrupt an Anzac Day parade in Australia with an act of terrorism.

The girl had also been arrested in April along with the 14-year-old boy, who had encouraged an Islamic State-inspired terror attack on police officers at the parade.

It is not alleged she was directly connected with the Anzac Parade plot, however.

The girl will be sentenced by the court at a later date.

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