The 16-year-old, from Manchester, was arrested in April with Britain’s youngest jihadist – a 14-year-old boy from Lancashire.
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The boy arrested in the same police investigation had pleaded guilty last month to encouraging the Anzac Day parade plot. After the retrieval of mobile data, the police claimed the pair conversed via 2,000 WhatsApp messages in April a day before they were arrested.
The girl knew the boy but there is no suggestion she was involved in the alleged Australian terror plot.
The girl, who is on bail, will appear at Manchester Magistrates’ Court later.
The girl pleaded guilty at Manchester magistrates’ court to two offences under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000, including possessing documents likely to be of use for a terrorist, yesterday.
The girl, not to be named due to her age, defended herself, saying the sketch pad was for a school project and the recipe for explosives was for a TV show on fireworks for kids.
However, no evidence was found that she was aware or played any part in the Anzac Day plot or any plan to harm others or incite terrorism in the UK or elsewhere.
“The youth offending team will want to interview you and your family”.
Judge Qureshi told her on Wednesday that he could sentence her to immediate custody but he continued her bail and called for pre-sentence reports with a view to referring her instead to appropriate authorities.
“In the end I need to understand why it happened”.
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She was accused of having a copy of bomb-making guide the Anarchist Cookbook.
