(National-UAE) The British government is still trying to get on top of the threat posed by so-called lone-wolf terror attacks and extremists in prison, it has conceded.
Responding to questions in parliament on Tuesday, justice minister Lucy Frazer said the government had trained 22 imams to run deradicalisation programmes in prisons but said there needed to be more places in transitionary premises for inmates returning to society.
She said the government took the threat posed by terrorists “very seriously” and pointed to an approach that included psychological, theological and mental health interventions.
In the past eight months three terrorist attacks in the UK have been blamed on recently released prisoners acting alone.
