A CHILDREN'S club helper who bankrolled her secret husband's terror plot is challenging her life sentence.

Sana Khan, 24, funded Mohammed Rehman's plan to detonate a fertiliser bomb in London around the time of the 10th anniversary of the July 7 attacks last year.

The pair were convicted last year of preparing terror acts at the Old Bailey and each handed life sentences.

But Khan, of Hutton Close, Earley, is now appealing against her sentence, which she claims was far too tough.

Her barrister, Henry Blaxland QC, argued at the Court of Appeal that more information about Khan should have been obtained before jailing her for life.

Her crime had arisen in the context of a 'very peculiar' relationship between her and Rehman, he told the lord chief justice, Lord Thomas.

The husband, 25, was the only person she had any contact with who expressed any interest at all in extremist ideology.

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Rehman used the alias 'Silent Bomber' on social media site Twitter.

And she was a drug user, which was almost completely unheard of for those who have taken to extreme Islam, he said.

Further information should have been obtained before the sentencing judge decided Khan, who worked as an after school club assistant for Aldryngton and Earley St Peter's Out of School Club, would be a public danger indefinitely, he said.

"On the face of it, there is at least the possibility that, now she has effectively broken from Rehman, she may no longer be any danger at all," he argued.

Khan is also appealing against the 25-year minimum term which she was ordered to serve before potential release on licence.

The term was "significantly too high" for someone whose only involvement had been in providing funds, said the QC.

"Although this was a very alarming incident, principally because the husband had assembled a considerable amount of explosives, it was never clear this would come to fruition," he said.

"No target had been selected and no date had been set. Her involvement was very much one removed from what was going to happen."

Lord Thomas, sitting with Sir Brian Leveson, Mr Justice Sweeney, Mr Justice Hickinbottom and Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, said he would make a decision on Khan's appeal at a later date.

Last year, the Old Bailey heard bomb-making chemicals had been found at Rehman's home in Reading. He had filmed himself setting off a small explosion in the back garden.

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Some of the materials used to prepare explosives were found at Rehman's home in Radstock Road, Reading.