French national Mina Dich, 51, received a prison sentence in 2018 after admitting to assisting her daughter Rizlaine Boular in planning an assault targeting police officers in the capital. Her younger daughter, Safaa Boular, who was 18 at the time, faced conviction for conspiring to launch a grenade and firearm attack at the British Museum. Both sisters received life imprisonment.

Last month, the High Court dismissed Dich’s attempt to remain in Britain, upholding the Home Secretary’s deportation order. Her legal representatives contended that she had resided in the United Kingdom for decades and that deportation would undermine efforts at rehabilitation. The presiding judge rejected these arguments, ruling the Home Secretary had thoroughly examined all relevant factors before proceeding with the removal order.

In particular, Safaa Boular, of Vauxhall, London, was convicted of preparing terrorism acts at home after failing to travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants. Boular’s radicalisation began in 2012, when her mother began apparently to support jihadist causes. Two years later her older sister, Rizlaine, attempted and failed to reach Syria.

In the wake of the 2015 Paris terror attacks, when she was 15-years-old and preparing for her GCSEs, Safaa met online a female Islamic State group recruiter – and in turn began chatting to British fighter Naweed Hussain, originally from Coventry. Their Instagram flirting led in August 2016 to an online “marriage” ceremony as the besotted teenager fell in love with a man twice her age. The trial heard that she had wanted to join Hussain in Syria, but she could not travel as she had already fallen under the suspicion of the security services.

Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45062647 and https://www.gbnews.com/news/woman-uk-all-female-terror-plot-mina-dich