Jailed For Failing To Inform Police About Terrorist Plans

At the Old Bailey on Friday, she was sentenced  to two years and four months’ imprisonment.

Rizlaine Boular, 22, and her mother, 44-year-old Mina Dich, were also sentenced last Friday at the Old Bailey for their own roles in planning terrorist attacks.  Thorough investigations carried out by counter-terrorism police and the security services thwarted their attacks.

Khawla was charged with terrorism offences and was convicted after she admitted knowing about Rizlaine and Mina’s plans, and not alerting the police or authorities to them. The arrests are a reminder of how serious an offence it is to be aware of terrorist plans, but keeping them from police

Alerting police to plans of terrorism can save several lives, but those who withhold relevant information about evil plans like terrorist attacks are effectively viewed by the law to be as serious an offence as terrorist acts since those in possession of the knowledge would be viewed as having supported the terrorist plans by their very silence.  Some people might be inclined to stay silent about information they have because they don’t want their friend or family member arrested by police and disgraced openly through the courts. Individuals who think this way would be urged to consider the serious risk to life their silence causes, and accept that more good would have emerged from informing police than would from keeping quiet.

After the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, especially after the 2007 awful London 7/7 attacks, the political and judicial mood against terrorism is at its highest ever. The message from the Old Bailey is that terrorists and those who harbour them will be punished severely if caught. With the faces of the female terrorist gang and their facilitators in the open, members of the public who know them will stay well clear of them when they are eventually released from prison.