A 19-year-old man has been charged with attempting to manufacture a weapon and possessing documents that could be used for preparing an act of terrorism. Jack Robinson, of Hawthorne Crescent, Portsmouth, Hampshire, was charged on Saturday. He is accused of several offences under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000...
Monthly Archives: November 2023
William Howitt, a 27-year-old former soldier for the British military, was found guilty of preparing to commit a terrorist attack in the United Kingdom, according to a November 17 release from the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Police (CTP.) Howitt had planned an attack on a bookshop in Nottingham because the literature provided did not...
A teenage boy was arrested in a dawn raid by anti-terror police after allegedly making a social media post praising Hamas. The 17-year-old was detained at his home in south London amid a spike of 2,200 referrals to the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command since the Hamas massacre on 7 October. He was arrested on...
Terror police have charged a 22-year-old woman over a speech at a protest rally in Brighton last month. The speech was at a public pro-Palestine rally, in which comments about the recent attacks by Hamas against Israel were made. Hanin Barghouti, 22, of Eaton Grove, Hove, was charged today (Monday...
LOWER MANHATTAN, Manhattan (WABC) — Every New Yorker sees uniformed NYPD officers on the streets of our city each day. However, there is so much more that they do to keep people safe, including screening incoming ships for potential hazards like radioactive material that could be used to make a dirty...
A British man who spent two years with Islamic State in Syria and knew the British militant dubbed Jihadi John, has been jailed for carrying a weapon for terrorist purposes. Aine Davis was also sentenced at the Old Bailey for fundraising after he tried to get his wife to send...
An ex-soldier accused of a far-right plot to set fire to a left-wing bookshop has told a jury he had an “inferiority complex” after leaving the Army William Howitt, of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, is on trial accused of writing a plan to burn down the Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham....
A former worker at the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ, who tried to murder a US spy, has been jailed for life. Joshua Bowles, 29, was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years behind bars for the “premeditated, targeted and vicious” knife attack at a leisure centre. Bowles, who had two...
A teenager from Swindon has been sentenced to six years in prison for the possession and dissemination of terrorist material. 18-year-old Malaki Wheeler was convicted of six offences after a three-week trial at Winchester Crown Court. The offences include three offences of disseminating terrorist publications, contrary to Section 2 of...
Reports to a UK police counter-terrorism hotline have more than doubled since the Hamas attack on Israel. Police said that between October 7 and 25 the anti-terror hotline received around 1,350 reports, more than twice the number of contacts compared to the same period last year. The number of reports with information useful...
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