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...
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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....
A man who was found with explosive materials and downloaded terrorist bomb-making manuals has been jailed. David Bodill, of Buxton, Derbyshire, was found with extremist material that showed attacks and beheadings on his laptop and other devices in March 2020. The 29-year-old fled to Bulgaria after he was charged but...
Police officers in Northern Ireland are frightened and their families and friends could be “jeopardised” after details were published in error, a former NI justice minister has said. Naomi Long said some officers would consider their futures with the force. In response to a freedom of information (FoI) request, the...
A viable device was discovered during a security alert in west Belfast on Tuesday, police have said. Police received reports of a suspicious object in Rossnareen Park at about 12:45 BST. Officers attended the scene and cordons were put in place. Ammunition technical officers (ATO) examined the object, which was...
COUNTER-TERRORISM officers have charged a teenager in the West Midlands as part of a continuing investigation. Amir El-Harith, aged 18, from Smethwick, was arrested on Wednesday August 3 on suspicion of terrorism offences. He has now been charged with three offences of distributing terrorist publications, three offences of encouraging terrorism and one offence...
Record numbers of young people are being arrested for terrorism-related offences. And their journey into extremism tends to start online. Jon started going down the rabbit hole when he saw a social media post. He was at school when a friend showed him something about British soldiers living on the...
A man from Somerset has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. Gabrielle Budasz, 23, has been charged with collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism at Westminster Magistrates court on Saturday. Counter Terrorism Policing South East said...
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