‘Lyrical Terrorist’ wins appeal against conviction In UK

Pakistan-origin Samina Malik penned lyrics entitled ‘How to behead’ and ‘The Living Martyrs’.

A Muslim shop assistant who wrote extremist poems, dubbing herself as the ‘lyrical terrorist’, has won an appeal against her conviction.

Pakistan-origin Samina Malik penned lyrics entitled “How to behead” and “The Living Martyrs” while working at W H Smith at Heathrow till recently. She also possessed a document entitled “The Terrorists’ Handbook.” The 24-year was found guilty in December under the Terrorism Act 2000 at the Old Bailey and given a nine-month jail sentence suspended for 18 months.

But the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, sitting in the Court of Appeal with Justice Goldring and Justice Plender, quashed the conviction on Tuesday.

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He said: “There is a very real danger the jury became confused and the prosecution have rightly conceded that this conviction is unsafe.”

The Court of Appeal had previously ruled that an offence would be committed only if a document was likely to “provide practical assistance to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”.

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