19/03/2015

21-Year-Old Woman Arrested After Being Deported From Turkey

A 21-year-old woman has been arrested by counter-terror police at Luton Airport after being detained by Turkish authorities.

Jamila Henry is suspected of having flown to Turkey using her twin sister's passport.

According to reports she was stopped at a bus station in Ankara on suspicion that she was planning to travel on to Syria to join Islamic State.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police met the woman off a flight from Istanbul and arrested her on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.

(MH/IT)

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