FOUR students - including one from Rochdale - accused of planning for terrorist acts abroad denied a string of charges at the Old Bailey.
Mohammed Irfan Raja, Aitzaz Zafar, both 18, with Awaab Iqbal and Usman Malik, both 19, variously pleaded not guilty to 12 charges under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Forensic science student Iqbal was arrested in March this year at a house in Grove Terrace, Bradford, by Special Branch and West Yorkshire detectives.
Sixth form schoolboy student Raja, from Ilford, Essex was arrested after he attended a London police station by appointment.
Iqbal and Malik, also a forensic student in Bradford, were subsequently arrested and charged.
The four all appeared in court via a video link.
Raja, of Holcombe Road, Ilford, denied collecting or making a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism and possessing articles that raise suspicion for the purpose of acts of terrorism.
Zafar, of Bishop Street, Rochdale, denied possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, possessing a document likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
Her denied two further counts of possessing an article in circumstances that raise reasonable suspicion that your possession is for the purpose of commissioning, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
Malik, of Laisteridge Lane, Bradford denied two counts of possessing a document likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
And he further denied two counts of possessing an article in circumstances that raise reasonable suspicion that your possession is for the purpose of commissioning, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.