Wife of Charlie Hebdo terror mentor appeals her conviction using human rights laws

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THE British-based wife of a recruiter for Al Qaeda, who mentored the Charlie Hebdo murderers, is using human rights legislation to appeal against her own terror conviction.

Hayat Boumeddiene, right and Amedy CoulibalyENTERPRISE
Sylvie Beghal's husband Djamel mentored Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene, shown here
Benefits-claiming Sylvie Beghal, from Leicester, is seeking to overturn her conviction for refusing to co-operate with police investigating her husband.

Djamel Beghal is known to have met two of the gunmen who terrorised Paris last week and gave female suspect Hayat Boumeddiene “crossbow practice”.

French citizen Mrs Beghal, 45, and the couple’s four children still live in the East Midlands where she is awaiting judgment.

Three years ago she was arrested and charged after arriving at East Midlands airport, where she refused to answer questions about her husband, who is in prison in France facing charges of leading a terror organisation.

She pleaded guilty to a charge related to terror laws but appealed. It is thought her case, which is supported by pressure group Cage and the Muslim Council of Britain, is legal aid-funded.

Mrs Beghal lives rent-free in a four-bedroom house after she came to the UK in search of a “more Islamic environment”.

If claiming housing benefit, she would be entitled to more than £10,000 a year. She has two children under 18, giving her £1,500 a year in child benefit.

With jobseekers’ allowance, she may have cost taxpayers over £150,000.
Beghal, 50 – who lived in Britain in the 1990s and was influenced by Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada – is thought to have inspired the Paris attacks.

It has emerged that killers Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly along with Boumeddiene visited him while under house arrest in Murat, central France.

Boumeddiene told police she and her husband had visited the convicted terrorist for “crossbow practice”.

Mrs Beghal claims her husband has had “nothing to do” with the Paris killings.