Schoolgirl Pleads Guilty To Terror Charges
A Manchester schoolgirl arrested with a teenage boy involved in a plot to attack police at an Anzac Day parade in Australia has pleaded guilty to two terror offences.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because of her age, was arrested in April along with Britain's youngest jihadi terrorist, a boy of 14 from Lancashire, who encouraged an Islamic State-inspired terror attack on officers at the parade.
Today the girl pleaded guilty to two offences under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 when she appeared at the Youth Court at Manchester Magistrates' Court.
She admitted two charges of possession of documents likely to be of use to anyone preparing or committing an act of terrorism. One was a recipe for explosives.
She was held by police in April following an investigation by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit.