A former glamour model who posed topless in a tabloid has been arrested by counter-terrorism police. The model was contacted last month by detectives for communicating with an Isis recruiter in Syria.
Kimberly Miners, 27, was detained by police on Friday under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of possessing material likely to be useful for preparing or committing an act of terror. Officers from the North East Counter Terrorism Unit also searched Miners’ Bradford home.
A spokeswoman for the unit said: “As part of an ongoing investigation, officers have arrested a 27-year-old woman from Bradford on suspicion of the possession of terrorist material.”
The police last month suspected that Miners was being groomed by Isis to become a jihadi bride. It is alleged she used multiple Facebook accounts to confuse authorities and allowed her to communicate extremists, including an ally of preacher Anjem Choudary.
In all her Facebook accounts, she was “friends” with an Isis recruiter in Syria named Abu Usama al-Britani. Authorities think he is a 30-year-old from Coventry who uses social media to spur attacks on UK soil.
Miners' has been released on bail pending further enquiries.
