Midlands synagogue was target of woman found guilty of terror offences

Prosecutors said that Mirza he had researched targets to attack including Birmingham's Central Synagogue and the city's RAF careers office.

He practiced the best way to kill someone using a martial arts dummy at home and came up with a way to hide the knife.

Police were alerted to the couple thanks to intelligence from M15.

Taheer  was arrested a week after the Westminster Bridge terror attack in London.

The jury took less than a day to convict his wife Taheer and Mirza’s sister Zainab Mirza, also pleaded guilty to sending him terrorist material.

All three will be sentenced next week.