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...
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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...
A pipe bomb exploded in a residential area of east Belfast on Tuesday night, police have confirmed. Residents were evacuated from their homes in the area of Hyndford Street off the Beersbridge Road. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have said that officers discovered what they described as a...
A 16-year-old boy from the Isle of Wight has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences this morning (Wednesday). Detectives and other specialist officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), supported by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary, descended on a property in the West Wight earlier today. They...
The counter-terrorism center of the state security service arrested two citizens of Georgia for ties to the Islamic State. “The security service carried out a special operation simultaneously in two regions of Georgia. During the searches, electronic media, symbols of a terrorist organization, ammunition and explosive devices were seized,” the...
A former British rapper once believed to be the ISIS killer ‘Jihadi’ John has been found dead in his prison cell in Spain. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and...
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