YAHOO NEWS (UK & IRELAND): A 23-year-old Heathrow Airport worker who called herself the "Lyrical Terrorist" has become the first woman to be convicted under new terrorism legislation.
Samina Malik burst into tears in the dock at the Old Bailey as a jury found her guilty of possessing records likely to be used for terrorism by a majority of 10 to one.
Malik wrote poems entitled How To Behead and The Living Martyrs and stocked a "library" of documents useful to terrorists, the Old Bailey heard.
Malik, who worked airside at WH Smith, was an unlikely but committed Islamic extremist, a jury was told.
The court heard she wrote on the back of a receipt from the shop: "The desire within me increases every day to go for martyrdom." Airport woman convicted over terror (more)
BBC:
The enigma that is the 'Lyrical Terrorist' By Ben Ando
Mark Alexander
