Mother jailed for being part of Britain's first all-female terror cell which plotted ISIS knife attack in London tells judge her risk of danger to the public is NOT relevant in bid to be freed early
- Mina Dich groomed and radicalised her daughters, who are both serving life
- Her daughters were jailed for planning knife attack on the Palace of Westminster
A convicted terrorist serving a six-year prison sentence for being a member of Britain's first all-female terror cell has argued that her long-term danger to the public is not relevant to her bid for parole.
Moroccan-born Mina Dich, 49, was caged in 2018 after she helped her daughters with their preparations for Islamic State terror attacks.
Dich's children Safaa Boular and Rizlaine Boular had planned a gun and grenade attack on the British Museum and a knife attack on the Palace of Westminster.
They were each jailed for life for their failed plots, with Safaa becoming the youngest woman to be convicted of plotting a terror attack on British soil.
She had started planning an attack in London after the ISIS fighter she planned to marry was killed in an air strike.
Mina Dich is due to be released from prison next year after plotting a terror attack
Rizlaine Boular (left) and her sister Safaa were both given life sentences for their crimes
Court artist sketch of Mina Dich and Rizlaine Boular being sentenced for their crimes
Dich used coded phone calls and discussed holding an Alice In Wonderland-themed tea party in reference to the terror plots.
Counter-terrorism police swooped to arrest the plotters after a surveillance operation with MI5.
At the time of sentencing, Judge Mark Dennis QC said Dich had 'failed in her parental role' to stop Rizlaine Boular just a month after the earlier Westminster atrocity and played a 'significant role' in radicalising both her daughters.
He told the mother she bore a 'heavy responsibility'.
The court had heard Rizlaine and Safaa became 'increasingly exposed' to extremist views by ISIS-supporting friends Dich would invite to the home and access to material online.
Dich is serving a sentence of six years and nine months, with five years on extended licence after her release.
A teenager, her sister and her mother all planned to launch a terrorist attack in central London which they dubbed the 'Mad Hatter's Tea Party', a court has heard.
In Britain's first alleged all-female terrorist plot, Safaa Boular, 18, was arrested as she planned a suicide attack on the British Museum, urged on by an ISIS fighter in Syria that she planned to marry.
Sisters Safaa (left in court sketch) and Rizlaine Boular (right) plotted a terror attack in London. The court heard they referred to the planned atrocity as 'The Mad Hatter's Tea Party'
Younger sister Safaa had planned to marry ISIS fighter Naweed Hussain (pictured) in Syria but turned her attention to attacking Britain after he was killed
Mother Mina Dich, right, helped with reconnaissance trips and bought knives
Boular had planned to marry ISIS fighter Naweed Hussain and become a suicide bomber in Syria but started plotting an attack in London when he was killed in an air strike
Mina Dich in Islamic dress. Boular and Dich were ordered to lift their veils as they appeared in court
Mina Dich, 43, Rizlaine Boular, 21, and Khawla Barghouli, 20, as they appeared in court
Safaa, pictured here on CCTV while on 'reconnaissance' around London, also wanted to attack the British Museum with a machine gun and grenades
Safaa Boular (left), 18, has been convicted of being part of an all-woman terror cell with her mother and older sister. Safaa was trained online by her fiancée Naweed Hussain (right), a British Pakistani national who joined ISIS in Syria in 2015 only to be killed in an air strike
The sisters are pictured left before they were radicalised and right in burkas
Rizlaine Boular plotted a terror attack in London which she referred to as 'The Mad Hatter's Tea Party'
Younger sister Safaa had planned to marry ISIS fighter Naweed Hussain (pictured) in Syria but turned her attention to attacking Britain after he was killed
Hussain sent images to his wife of a personalised Kalashnikov assault rifle (pictured) along with two grenades and a handgun
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