--- description: An 18-year-old girl has been found guilty of planning, alongside her mother and sister, an attack on the British Museum in London title: A Teen Girl Was Found Guilty of Plotting a Terrorist Attack in London image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte06773a52d5883fe/698932300a4a2234ca9d2dfe/gettyimages-146255146.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [United Kingdom](/tag/united-kingdom/) ## United Kingdom Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Teen Girl Was Found Guilty of Plotting a Terrorist Attack in London by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2018 3:19 PM CUT  Courtyard of the British Museum in London, England, United Kingdom. Courtyard of the British Museum in London, England, United Kingdom.Pawel Libera—Getty Images/VisitBritain RM by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2018 3:19 PM CUT An 18-year-old girl has been found guilty of planning, alongside her mother and sister, an attack on the British Museum in London, in what is being called the U.K.’s first all-female, ISIS-related terrorist plot. Safaa Boular, from Vauxhall, south London, was detained by police for her attempt to join her partner Naweed Hussain, an ISIS recruiter, in Syria, where the pair planned to carry out a suicide attack, according to the prosecutor in Boular’s trial. The pair had met online when Boular was about 16 and Hussain was 15 years her senior, [_Sky News_](https://news.sky.com/story/teen-found-guilty-of-first-all-female-uk-terror-plot-11394658 "undefined") reports. When Hussain was killed in Syria, Boular was charged and detained. She soon recruited her older sister, Rizlaune, to help with a grenade and gun attack in central London, wanting to join Hussain in martyrdom, [_The Guardian_](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/04/teenage-girl-boular-guilty-plotting-terror-attack-london-british-museum "undefined") reports. Police discovered messages on her phone between the sisters, who used an _Alice in Wonderland_\-themed code to discuss the plan. Rizlaine Boular, 22, pleaded guilty to plotting the attack and her mother, Mina Dich, admitted to assisting her, [_The Guardian_](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/04/teenage-girl-boular-guilty-plotting-terror-attack-london-british-museum "undefined") reports. The prosecutor, Duncan Atkinson, said Boular and Hussain “planned to launch an attack against members of the public, selected largely at random, in the environs of that cultural jewel and most popular of tourist attractions, the British Museum, in central London,” according to _Sky_. Safaa Boular is one of the youngest women to have been charged and convicted of terrorism offenses in Britain. During the trial, her lawyer claimed that she had been “groomed” by Hussain. A jury deliberated for two days before finding Safaa Boular guilty. 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