Emergency services across South Wales have been testing their preparedness for terrorism incidents this week, taking part in a live-play exercise in collaboration with Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP). The exercise focused on a scenario involving a terrorist attack at a music event at Newport International Sports Village. The multi-agency exercise involved:...
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A British terrorist who travelled to Syria intending on ‘martyrdom on the battlefield’ has been released from a UK jail after just nine years behind bars. Yusuf Zubair Sarwar and his childhood friend Mohammed Nahin Ahmed were both jailed in 2014 and branded ‘dangerous’ by the trial judge after pleading guilty of...
Detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands CTP arrested two men yesterday (Wednesday, July 12) on suspicion of terrorism. The men – aged 18 and 22 and from Birmingham and West Bromwich respectively – were detained in connection with disseminating terrorism material and fundraising for terrorism. They remain in custody today (Thursday, July 13)....
Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari, 26, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to court documents, Al-Azhari pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2023. Al-Azhari is a...
A Youtuber has been remanded in custody and is facing a lengthy jail term after claiming he had a bomb at an airport. Online prankster Garard Ndela was arrested just minutes after turning up at Newcastle Airport on Monday, July 3. The 19-year-old was recording himself in the terminal building walking past...
A former college student who plotted to blow up a police station to spark a race war has been jailed for four years. Luke Skelton, who was referred to the Prevent anti-terror programme due to his extreme right-wing views, was 18 when he carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a station...
Gibbons’ neo-Nazi online library was found by officers to have held more than 500 videos of extreme right-wing-related speeches and propaganda documents. It had nearly 1,000 subscribers, and the content had been viewed more than 152,000 times. Two men who used a podcast series to encourage listeners to commit violent...
Two brothers who were on trial for planning to travel to Afghanistan to join a branch of Islamic State have pleaded guilty to terrorism offences. Muhammad Abdul Haleem Heyder Khan, 21, and 18-year-old Muhammad Hamzah Heyder Khan had been on trial at Birmingham Crown Court since early July, charged with...
A man from Brighton has been charged with 11 terrorism-related offences. Mason Reynolds, 18, of Moulsecoomb Way, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, and will next appear at the Old Bailey on 21 July. The charges against him are linked to an “extreme right-wing ideology”, counter-terrorism police say. Among...
A man was arrested under the Explosives Act after “suspicious chemicals and potential explosive equipment” were found at a house in Leyland has been bailed. Emergency services swarmed to the property on Nursery Close and various buildings near the town’s civic centre were evacuated. Specialist bomb disposal teams and military...
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