A court in Manchester in the United Kingdom has sentenced a woman with dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality to two years imprisonment for possessing documents likely to be useful for terrorism,  British media report.

The Moroccan-born woman smuggled a memory stick, containing information which the British authorities described as "a mini encyclopaedia of weapons-making" into the country. Houria Chahed Chentouf was arrested at Liverpool airport when the memory stick fell out of the sleeve of her burka while she was interviewed by customs officers.

At the request of the British authorities the Dutch police searched a house in The Hague and seized documents. The woman lived in The Hague for 20 years.