A Bradford man has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with a series of terrorism and fraud offences. Muhammed Saeed Ahmed, 31, was arrested in June 2021 as part of a pre-planned operation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East, and was released under investigation the same day. The charges relate...
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Several hundred members of Russia’s Wagner private mercenary group have returned to eastern Ukraine to fight but are not having a significant impact on the battlefield, a Ukrainian military spokesman has said. Wagner fighters played an important role in Russia’s capture of the eastern city of Bakhmut in May 2023, after one...
A Co Tyrone woman facing terrorist charges has been described in court as a “leading member of the New IRA”. The allegation was made today as Sharon Jordan mounted a fresh bid to be released from custody after previous attempts to secure bail were rejected. Jordan (48), of Cappagh Road,...
A 23-year-old woman has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for terrorism offences. Roma Iqbal, from Oxford, pleaded guilty to distributing Islamist extremist content on 10 December 2021. Winchester Crown Court heard the 23-year-old had helped set up a website called the People of Tawhid to support the terrorist...
A man who stockpiled terror documents describing how to make bombs alongside sexual abuse videos of children as young as three has been jailed. Sejr Forster, 26, of Norfolk, was jailed for four years at the Old Bailey on Tuesday after jurors heard how a counter-terror police raid uncovered the offending. The trial heard how Forster had an “extreme...
Work to install anti-terror bollards on a street leading to York Minster will begin on Monday. Barriers are being installed at locations throughout the city after police said they were needed to protect people from terror attacks. York City Council said the work in Minster Gates was expected to finish...
An A-level student has been found guilty of sharing weapons manuals and terrorist documents. Malakai Wheeler, 18, of Stamford Close, Swindon, Wiltshire, was convicted by a jury at Winchester Crown Court of six charges, including possessing a copy of the Terrorist Handbook. Judge Jane Miller KC told Wheeler, who was...
Five Bulgarians living in the UK have been charged with spying for Russia, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. Orlin Roussev, 45, Bizer Dzhambazov, 41, Katrin Ivanova, 31, Ivan Stoyanov, 31, and Vanya Gaberova, 29, will be charged with conspiring to collect information intended to be useful to an...
The UK has officially banned Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group as a terrorist organisation, weeks after the death of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. The order was approved on Friday – making it illegal to be a member of, or to support, Wagner. Those found guilty of aiding the paramilitary could face...
Gardaí have arrested and charged six people as part of a probe into terrorist financing and money laundering. Three men (37, 25, and 22) and two women (68 and 42) will appear in court in Dublin today. A garda spokesperson said: “They will all appear before District Court 1, Criminal...
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