Samina Malik

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Samina Malik was the first person to be convicted under the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act. Malik, then a 23-year-old Heathrow Airport shop clerk from Southall, west London, was found guilty of "possessing a document or a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism", but was earlier acquitted on the more serious charge of "possessing an article for terrorist purposes". Her conviction was later overturned on appeal.

Identity and personality

The name "Lyrical Terrorist" is Samina Malik's on-line handle, which she used to post poems on

cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri
on "the media's continuous spotlight and through his preaching, which the media continuously kept shedding light upon."

Evidence

The documents in question include books on techniques of

Islamist
groups). He also contends that in the past she has tried to donate money to a terrorist organization.

Malik had been regularly in e-mail contact with a man named Sohail Qureshi.[2] She advised him on the levels of security at Heathrow Airport, shortly before he travelled to Heathrow with the purpose of flying to Pakistan and then joining a terrorist group. This fact was kept from the jury during her trial, but it later emerged when he pleaded guilty to offences under the UK's 2000 and 2006 Terrorism Acts.[3]

Sentencing

Malik was held under house arrest prior to sentencing. The judge in this case, Peter Beaumont QC, has said that Malik is "in some respects a complete enigma to me". He also warned that "all sentencing options" would be available on December 6, when the case was due to return to court. On 6 December, she was given a nine-month suspended jail sentence. She was the first woman to be convicted under the 2000 Terrorism Act.

On 17 June 2008, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to seek a re-trial following a successful appeal.[4]

See also

  • Rizwaan Sabir

References

  1. ^ a b "'Lyrical Terrorist led double life'". BBC Online. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ "The terrorist and the shop girl". BBC Online. 2008-01-08. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
  3. ^ O'Neill, Sean (2008-01-08). "Dentist Sohail Qureshi jailed over terror charge". The Times. London. Retrieved 2010-05-23. (subscription required)
  4. ^ "'CPS Response to Samina Malik appeal". Crown Prosecution Service. 2008-06-17. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved 2008-06-17.

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