(BBC) The UK is facing a “smouldering” terror threat level with children as young as 10 accessing extreme online material, one of the country’s most senior counter-terrorism officers has warned.
Deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans, senior national co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said there was a rapid increase in the number of terror suspects radicalised by “extreme violence” and a “conveyor belt of young people” being affected by extreme online content — some of whom could go on to commit “horrific acts.”
Police and security services have stopped 43 late-stage terror plots since 2017, three of which were in the past year — with some of these being “goal line saves.”
The official terrorism threat level in the UK is substantial, meaning an attempted attack is likely.
