A woman threatened to blow up a medical centre and a police station, telling staff: “I’m a terrorist and there is a bomb planted somewhere.” Courtney Longstaff made the hoax claims that she had planted devices, first at King’s Medical Centre in Normanton, and then at the police station in...
Monthly Archives: August 2023
A man who sent hoax packages to primary schools, shopping centres and other businesses across the country containing white powder and letters telling recipients to ‘run’, has been convicted of terrorism offences. Gary Preston, 63, from Haverhill, on 11th August 2023 admitted 21 charges relating to packages sent between September...
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 passengers on board, Russia’s Civil Aviation Authority has said. There has been no comment from the Kremlin or Russia’s defence ministry as Prigozhin’s death is yet to be officially confirmed. The crash comes...
A teenage terror suspect charged with attempting to build a weapon of mass destruction was arrested at the home of a Philadelphia defense attorney who sought the Democrat nomination for a judge’s role, sources have claimed. The 17-year-old, who has not been named, was allegedly communicating with a Jordanian Islamic...
A self-described “activist” from Quebec who pleaded guilty to sending Donald Trump a poison-laced letter at the height of the former president’s ill-fated 2020 re-election effort has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison. Pascale Ferrier, 56, agreed to the 21-year, 10-month sentence as part of a plea agreement...
Turkish police nabbed 12 people over their suspected links to the Daesh terrorist group in the western city of Bursa, security sources said. Counter-terrorism units conducted simultaneous operations in the early morning hours at the addresses of the suspects. All of the suspects are foreign nationals. During the raids, a...
Sweden‘s intelligence agency heightened its terror alert level Thursday to four on a scale of five after angry reactions in the Muslim world to Koran burnings in Sweden made the country a ‘prioritised target’. The level was increased from ‘elevated’, where it had been since 2016, to ‘high’, the head...
A Romsey businessman has been found guilty of plotting to plant two bombs in London. Jonathan Nuttall, 50, was convicted today at the Old Bailey to plant two devices in London’s legal district over a £1.4million legal battle with the National Crime Agency (NCA). The court heard how Nuttal had been pursued by the...
A man has been arrested as part of an investigation linked to the major breach of data from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The 39-year-old was arrested on suspicion of collection of information likely to be useful to terrorists. The data, which was mistakenly released, included the surnames...
Three Bulgarian nationals suspected of spying on behalf of Russia have been arrested and charged by counter-terror detectives following a major national security investigation. The BBC has revealed the defendants were held in February under the Official Secrets Act by Metropolitan Police officers and have been remanded in custody since....
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