Three women arrested as part of the Willesden counter-terrorism raid appeared in court on Thursday (May 11).

The women are charged in relation to the alleged planning of a suspected knife attack in Westminster - thought to be the first all-female alleged British-based terror plot.

They were arrested following a raid on a property in Harlesden Road on April 27.

Two of the women, Rizlaine Boular, 21 and her mother Mina Dich, 43, were ordered to lift their veils by chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrates Court before being remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on May 19.

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of, (left to right) Mina Dich, 43, Rizlaine Boular, 21, and Khawla Barghouthi, 20, appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court.

Boular had been shot during the raid by elite armed police officers and spent three days in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington before being arrested on discharge, in connection to the alleged plot.

Dich, who was arrested in Kent, her daughter Boular and 20-year-old associate Khawla Barghouthi are accused of conspiring together to murder "a person or persons unknown" between April 11 and April 28 2017.

Boular has also been charged with engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts between the same dates, while Dich and Barghouthi are charged with intending to assist her.

The women appeared in court flanked by three female police officers and three suited officials.

Two men, aged 21 and 28, and a 16-year-old boy, were also arrested in the April 27 raid on Barghouti's Harlesden Road address, and have now been released without charge.

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