Safeguarding Individuals Vulnerable to Violent Extremism

06/01/2024

Young Britons exposed to online radicalisation following Hamas attack.

There has been an unprecedented 12-fold increase in hateful social media content being referred to specialist police officers since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, according to the UK's Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67884785

10/08/2022

Kristen Brekke a convicted Cardiff terrorist has been sent back to jail after keeping secret financial accounts from authorities.
Kristen Brekke, 26, had been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for preparing terrorist acts in 2016.

Kristen Brekke is jailed for breaching restrictions after his release from prison.

09/07/2022

Social media was now a "loss leader" for groups like Islamic State (IS)
Cyber terrorism expert Prof Maura Conway, from Dublin City and Swansea universities, said. ‘’IS and the like still post on Facebook and Twitter etc, but they know that they'll quickly be removed, so they use a scattergun approach to entice the most number of people in the limited time their message will be seen,The serious content is held on terrorist-operated websites, which contain a vast amount of archived material taken down from mainstream social media."

Security and industry experts meet to discuss changing ways extremists use the web to spread message.

19/10/2021

How Prevent became a 'political correctness' battleground.

Prevent has come under fresh criticism after it emerged Ali Harbi Ali, the suspected terrorist accused of murdering Tory MP David Amess, was referred to the programme.

18/10/2021

Critics have questioned whether experts missed opportunities to stop a suspect described by investigators as a 'lone wolf' extremist.

Ali Harbi Ali, 25, was referred to the flagship anti-extremism scheme, Prevent, which aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists.

23/09/2021

Extremists using video-game chats to spread hate.

Campaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.

21/07/2021

Neo-Nazi jailed for terror and hate crimes.
Andrew Dymock, 24, from Bath, led the outlawed groups System Resistance Network (SRN) and Sonnenkrieg Division.
Judge Dennis said: "Despite all the advantages of a good education and family upbringing you chose, at the age of 20, to take the path of dreadful bigotry, intolerance and hatred towards other members of our society solely on the basis of their race, creed or sexual orientation.

Andrew Dymock promoted a "distorted and wicked cause" and chose a path of "hatred and bigotry".

13/07/2021

The Base will be the fifth extreme right-wing group to be proscribed in the UK under anti-terror laws.
The Base, formed in 2018, seeks to create terrorist cells in the US and other countries in an attempt to establish fascist, white ethno-states through a "race war".

US group The Base, which aims to start a race war, is banned after recruitment efforts in Britain.

08/07/2021

A “staggeringly high” number of autistic people - including children - are being drawn into terrorism, it has been warned.
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‘It is as if a social problem has been unearthed and fallen into lap of counter-terrorism professionals’

04/07/2021

Safeguarding and radicalisation: children’s social care learning
Exploratory report findings on how radicalisation is being addressed in children’s social care.
Challenges remain, such as information sharing, determining and using thresholds, developing a shared multi-agency understanding of risk and an appropriate response across local authority areas. This has resulted in inconsistent responses and approaches to radicalisation both within and across different local authority areas.

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29/06/2021

A 15-year-old, from Derbyshire, pleaded guilty to encouraging terrorism, possessing & disseminating a terrorist publication. A second boy, aged 16 from Kent, admitted providing an electronic link so others could access a terrorist publication.

A 15-year-old from Derbyshire set up an extremist right-wing group on a messaging app, a court hears.

18/02/2021

Call of Duty: Warzone, which has more than 85million players worldwide, is just the latest battleground where heinous far-right groups are attempting to reach new, young members.

VIDEO games are a great way to connect with people during lockdown – and the far-right knows it. With gaming enjoying a huge boost thanks to the pandemic, prominent British neo-Nazi Mark Collett is…

09/02/2021

UK terrorism threat level lowered to 'substantial'

It comes after a "significant reduction" in the momentum of attacks in Europe, the home secretary says.

09/02/2021

How did a boy from Cornwall become the UK's youngest terror offender?

A boy from Cornwall is the UK's youngest person to have committed a terror offence.

08/02/2021

Britain's youngest terrorist is spared jail.
The boy, now 16, became the leader of the UK branch of Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) in 2019. When police raided his grandmother's home they found a sw****ka flag and the extremist codes '14 88' painted across the garden shed.
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Britain's youngest convicted terrorist, who led a neo-Nazi cell from his grandmother's house in Cornwall, has been sentenced at the Old Bailey to a 24-month youth rehabilitation order.