Female jihadist posed as a man

The first female jihadist in Britain to plot a suicide bombing ran an encrypted channel on Telegram urging terrorist attacks posing as a man, the Old Bailey heard. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 37, carried out a reconnaissance trip to the City of London to scope out St Paul’s as a potential target while staying in a hotel. The former company director tried to make contact with a bomb maker online and asked them to build two improvised explosive devices while plotting…