By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A 16-YEAR-OLD girl from northern England has been charged after she was implicated in the foiled terror plot allegedly targeting Anzac Day services in Melbourne’s south-east.
The girl was charged by counter-terrorism police after a warrant was executed at a house in Manchester on 3 April.
She is accused of two offences under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 and will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court in London on 22 July.
Police were led to the girl after investigating a 15-year-old boy from Blackburn in Lancashire, who was held on 2 April in connection with the Australian terror plot.
The British boy has appeared at the Old Bailey in London charged with trying to incite beheadings and attacks on Australian Anzac Day commemoration services.
In April a 200-strong joint state and federal police counter-terrorism team executed seven search warrants in Narre Warren, Hampton Park, Hallam and Eumemmerring as part of Operation Rising.
As a result Harun Causevic of Hampton Park and Sevdet Ramdan Besim of Hallam were charged with conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts.
A third teenager Mehran Azami, 19, of Narre Warren, was charged with importing weapons planned for use in the foiled plot.
Two other Narre Warren men, aged 18 and 19, were released without charge.
The girl from Manchester has been charged with collecting or making a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing for an act of terrorism, or possessing a document or record containing information of that kind.
The UK teen’s trial is scheduled to begin on 17 August in Manchester.
