(BBC) A man posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head on Twitter while encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam, a trial has heard. Ajmal Shahpal is alleged to have praised the killer of a French teacher for being […]
(BBC) A man on trial for murdering his niece had no motive, unlike her father who was “humiliated” after her failed forced marriage, a jury has heard. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum at her home in Bradford, […]
(BBC) A new law set to go before Parliament later will introduce new measures aimed at removing migrants entering the UK on small boats. The Illegal Migration Bill is set to prevent those arriving illegally from claiming asylum, and will block them […]
(BBC) MI5’s apology for not preventing the Manchester Arena attack is not “enough,” MPs have heard. The head of the security agency said on Thursday it was “profoundly sorry” that it did not thwart the suicide bombing in 2017 which killed 22 […]
(BBC) A man on trial for murdering his niece asked police “what the sentence was for someone in his position,” a court has heard. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum at her home in Bradford, in June 2022. […]
(BBC) Death threats sent to pupils who damaged a copy of the Quran at a school have been condemned by an education minister as “totally unacceptable.” West Yorkshire Police said officers had spoken to a child alleged to have made threats and […]
(BBC) The body of a 20-year-old woman was so badly decomposed it was not possible to determine how she died, a murder trial has heard. Somaiya Begum was found wrapped in a rug on waste ground in Bradford in July last year. […]
(BBC) The head of MI5 said he was “profoundly sorry” the security service did not prevent the Manchester Arena attack. A public inquiry found MI5 missed a significant chance to take action that might have stopped the 2017 bombing. Chairman Sir John […]
(BBC) The chair of trustees at a mosque which was accused of turning a “blind eye” to extremist views prior to the Manchester Arena attack said he “would have done anything” to prevent the 2017 atrocity. Fawzi Haffar said he felt Didsbury […]
(BBC) A 20-year-old woman was murdered by her uncle and “dumped like rubbish” for refusing a forced marriage, a court was told. Somaiya Begum’s body was found wrapped in a rug on land near Fitzwilliam Street, Bradford, on 6 July. Prosecutors at […]
(BBC) Four trustees of a mosque have been jailed after attacking a worshipper who was unhappy they were using the site during lockdown. The victim, a 48-year-old man, was lured to the mosque in Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 4 June […]
(BBC) A woman has been charged with disseminating materials relating to terrorism. Roma Iqbal, 23, of Kestrel Crescent, Oxford, is accused of three counts relating to content published online in December 2021. The charges concern Islamist publications, Counter Terrorism Policing South East […]
(BBC) A judge has taken action to protect a woman with learning disabilities in an arranged marriage that happened in Pakistan. Luton Borough Council, which had responsibility for the woman, asked Mrs Justice Theis to consider issues relating to her care. The […]
(BBC) A Muslim preacher who was close to the Manchester bomber had been suspected by MI5 of radicalising people more than a decade earlier, the BBC can reveal. A public inquiry into the atrocity will this week report on how Salman Abedi […]
(BBC) SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf has defended his decision to miss the final vote on Scotland’s equal marriage legislation. Former minister Alex [Neil] said Mr Yousaf arranged a meeting in February 2014 as cover. But the health secretary said he had […]
(BBC) Four pupils have been suspended from a West Yorkshire secondary school after a copy of the Quran was damaged by students. Wednesday’s incident at Wakefield’s Kettlethorpe High School happened when a copy of the Islamic text was brought in by a […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum has lost her challenge over the decision to deprive her of British citizenship despite a “credible” case she was trafficked. Mr Justice Jay told the semi-secret court dealing with her case that her appeal had been fully dismissed. The […]
(BBC) A university professor falsely accused of Islamophobia said the experience had been “terrifying.” A student society complained about Professor Steven Greer when he worked at the University of Bristol. In October 2021 the university said its investigation into a module taught […]
(BBC) More than 1,000 staff in Manchester have taken counter-terrorism training ahead of new legislation to tighten venue security after the Arena bomb. The Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) course aims to equip staff to identify, mitigate and respond to terror attacks. It […]
(BBC) Independent TV network Iran International is suspending its operations in the UK because of threats against its London-based journalists. The Persian-language TV channel said that the decision was due to a “significant escalation in state-backed threats from Iran.” “Threats had grown […]
(BBC) A man has pleaded not guilty to plotting a terror attack at Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park. Edward Little is accused of researching intended targets to attack, including a Christian preacher, on or before his arrest on 23 September 2022. […]
(BBC) A man accused of posting a link to a video of suicide bombings on Instagram has appeared in court. Shafi Saleem, 32, is alleged to have shared terrorist material via the app last year. He was arrested on Tuesday at Heathrow […]
(BBC) Fifteen people, including a 13-year-old boy, have been arrested after violent clashes outside a Merseyside hotel accommodating asylum seekers. A police officer and two members of the public suffered minor injuries during the disorder in Knowsley on Friday. A police van […]
(BBC) A religious chief criticised in a damning review of the UK’s scheme to prevent terrorism has hit back after being singled out in the report. The report commissioned by the Home Office suggests the Prevent strategy, which aims to identify potential […]
(BBC) There are “grave concerns” about the deportation of Abu Hamza’s son to Turkey, the BBC has been told. Sufyan Mustafa, from London, was stripped of his British citizenship in 2016 after he travelled to fight in Syria. The 28-year-old is due […]
(BBC) A man is facing trial accused of having an instruction manual on how to make a 3D-printed gun following an investigation into Islamist extremism. Abdiwahid Abdulkadir Mohamed has been charged with six counts of possessing documents useful for committing or preparing […]
(BBC) The UK’s scheme to prevent terrorism has “apparently failed” repeatedly to identify attackers, a highly critical review has concluded. The report from the Home Office’s hand-picked reviewer says the Prevent strategy has lost its way. William Shawcross said the nationwide system […]
(BBC) A member of the British Army accused of planting fake bombs at an RAF base has appeared in court. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, is alleged to have left three cannisters with wires at MOD Stafford on 2 January. He appeared at […]
(BBC) Four men have been given long jail sentences for being accomplices to murder in a deadly terror attack by a lone jihadist gunman in the heart of Austria’s capital in November 2020. Kujtim Fejzulai went on the rampage in Vienna’s busy […]
(BBC) A failed asylum seeker who killed his 87-year-old “surrogate grandmother” has been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon, 34, stabbed Brenda Blainey in her North Yorkshire home in “circumstances of appalling brutality” on 5 January 2022. He had been […]
(BBC) A serving soldier in the British Army accused of committing a bomb hoax at an RAF base and another terror offence has appeared in court. Daniel Abed Khalife, of Beaconside, Stafford, was charged on Friday, and has been remanded in custody. […]
(BBC) A serving member of the British Army has been charged with a terror offence, the Metropolitan Police has said. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was charged over two incidents including attempting to “elicit information of a kind likely to be useful to […]
(BBC) A student nurse accused of taking a homemade bomb to the Leeds hospital he worked at has appeared in court. Mohammad Farooq was said to have the device outside the maternity ward of St James’s Hospital on 20 January. Mr Farooq, […]
(BBC) A man jailed for encouraging terrorism in a speech in a mosque has had his sentence cut by a year. Abubaker Deghayes, from Saltdean, East Sussex, was convicted at the Old Bailey in April 2022, and sentenced to four years with […]
(BBC) A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence after he was allegedly spotted with a suspected firearm and suspicious package at a hospital maternity ward. The Gledhow wing of St James’s Hospital in Leeds was evacuated after […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in court accused of keeping instructions on how to make a 3D-printed gun. Abdiwahid Abdulkadir Mohamed, 31, from north London, is facing terrorism charges for allegedly possessing the information. He is accused of six counts of possessing […]
(BBC) Migrants facing potential removal to Rwanda under the Home Office’s relocation scheme have won permission to challenge the policy. Last month the High Court ruled that the scheme was lawful. Today’s ruling means there is no prospect of flights leaving immediately […]
(BBC) A man has been given a conditional discharge after he was arrested as police tried to prevent violence between groups in a Leicester street. Arslan Ibrahim was detained during a confrontation in Harrison Road, Belgrave, on 7 September. The 28-year-old, of […]
(BBC) A coroner has said he will “fearlessly” examine whether the state could have prevented the murders of three men during a terrorist attack in a park. James Furlong, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and David Wails died within minutes of being stabbed by Khairi […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum has said she accepts that she joined a terror group when she fled Britain as a schoolgirl for Islamic State (IS) — and said she understands the public anger towards her. In interviews spanning more than a year, Ms […]
(BBC) A woman has denied being involved in the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a four-year-old British girl in Kenya. Amina Noor, 39, is accused of aiding and abetting a non-UK citizen in an act of genital mutilation between 2006 and 2007. […]
(BBC) A drugs conspiracy involving friends of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber was “comfortably” worth £6m, a court has heard. Five men have been sentenced to between six and 12 years at Manchester Crown Court following a spin-off inquiry from the Manchester […]
(BBC) Some 44 migrants have been brought to shore in the UK, in the first small boat crossing of the new year. The migrants were picked up by the UK’s Border Force and taken to Dover. French authorities say another two boats […]
(BBC) Ninety people crossed the English Channel in two small boats on Christmas Day, the Ministry of Defence said. More than 45,000 migrants have made the perilous crossing from France to England so far this year. In 2021, the figure was far […]
(BBC) The government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has ruled. The court ruled on Monday that the scheme did not breach the UN’s Refugee Convention or human rights laws. But the cases of eight asylum seekers […]
(BBC) A man has been charged after four people died in the Channel when a migrant boat got into trouble. Thirty-nine people were rescued when a dinghy ran into difficulties off the Kent coast on Wednesday, but four died. Ibrahima Bah, 19, […]
(BBC) Plans to ban migrants from claiming asylum in the UK will save lives, the home secretary has insisted. Suella Braverman said a new law preventing illegal entrants from applying would deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats. She added […]
(BBC) William Barr was the US attorney general who announced the charges against Abu Agila Masud two years ago, on the 32nd anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing — the deadliest terror attack ever on UK soil. He also announced the charges against […]
(BBC) Fewer than 100 people who crossed the English Channel in small boats have been arrested for arriving illegally in the UK under a new power to deter them. The figure represents 0.3% of those who have crossed since the law was […]
(BBC) Recent disorder in Leicester showed why “robust strategies that support integration” were needed, the city’s bishop has said in the House of Lords. Making his maiden speech on Friday during a debate on immigration, Bishop Martyn Snow said more support was […]
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