A READING woman who was jailed for her part in her Jihadi husband's plot to attack London with a fertiliser bomb has had her sentence cut by the country's top judge.

University graduate, Sana Khan, 24, bankrolled Mohammed Rehman's plan to detonate a device 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 were handed life sentences.

Khan, of Hutton Close in Earley, was ordered to serve at least 25 years behind bars before she could even apply for parole.

But the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, today slashed that to 23 years in the light of Khan's previously law abiding lifestyle.

Khan and Rehman had been through a "secret" Muslim marriage ceremony before she started to finance his bomb-making plans.

She had a good job and he used her money to buy chemicals and lab-style equipment, London's Appeal Court heard.

Khan claimed she believed Rehman was spending her money on drugs, but he sent her a video of a test explosion carried out in his back garden.

Rehman claimed that it was she who had radicalised him and that he had wanted to be caught so that he could escape from her malign influence.

Copies of the Koran were found at Khan's home, with passages highlighted which she believed justified terrorism.

The judge who jailed her said she had "played a full and active part" in encouraging and planning the bomb plot.

On appeal, her lawyers pointed to her good behaviour behind bars and said that she had not embraced all radical aspects of Islam.

She was a drug-user, which is almost unheard of amongst radical Muslims, and had continued to dress in western style, the court heard.

But Lord Thomas, sitting with four other senior judges, said she had "a propensity to deceive and lie" in a bid to paint herself as non-extremist.

Cutting her sentence, however, he ruled: "Taking into account her previous good character, and her role in contrast to that of Rehman, the appropriate minimum term should have been 23 years".