{"id":2901,"date":"2007-12-07T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T10:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/suspended-sentence-for-lyrical-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:25:18","slug":"suspended-sentence-for-lyrical-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/suspended-sentence-for-lyrical-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended sentence for \u2018Lyrical terrorist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"272\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/SaminaMalik180x232.jpg\"\/>A FORMER Heathrow Airport worker who became the first female to be convicted under new terrorism legislation has been spared jail.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>23-year-old Samina Malik was convicted at the Old Bailey last month after police found a \u201clibrary\u201d of material useful to terrorists at her family home in Southall, west London.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But she was spared a prison term by Judge Peter Beaumont who gave her a nine-month suspended jail sentence and 100 hours community service. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Jurors had heard that Malik, who worked airside at WH Smith at Heathrow, wrote on the back of a till receipt: \u201cThe desire within me increases every day to go for martyrdom.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The lengthy ramblings about firing rocket launchers and \u201ctaking part in the blessed forgotten sacred death of Jihad\u201d were found when police searched her home. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, told the court Malik visited a website linked to jailed cleric Abu Hamza and stored material about weapons. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The court also heard she belonged to a social networking website called Hi-5, describing her interests as \u201chelping the mujaheddin in any way I can\u201d. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But Malik told the jury she only adopted her \u201clyrical terrorist\u201d nickname because she thought it was \u201ccool\u201d and insisted: \u201cI am not a terrorist.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FORMER Heathrow Airport worker who became the first female to be convicted under new terrorism legislation has been spared jail. &#13; 23-year-old Samina Malik was convicted at the Old Bailey last month after police found a \u201clibrary\u201d of material useful to terrorists at her family home in Southall, west London. &#13; But she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}