(BBC) A man has been charged with distributing terrorist materials and supporting the Islamic State group. Abdullah Bellil, 29, was arrested at his home in Southampton on Wednesday, police said. The charges, covering a period from July 2023 to October 2024, include […]
(BBC) Two men have denied plotting an Islamic State group-inspired gun attack on the Jewish community in the UK. Walid Saadaoui, 37, and Amar Hussein, 51, pleaded not guilty on Friday to preparing acts of terrorism between 13 December [2023] and 9 […]
(BBC) A self-styled “keyboard warrior” and Hamas supporter who threatened Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with a knife emoji on social media has been jailed for a year. Mohammed Nafees Ahmed, 32, from Tipton, near Birmingham, had previously appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ […]
(BBC) Eight people accused of abetting the jihadist murder of French teacher Samuel Paty are to learn their fate after a six-week trial in a Paris court. They include the father of a schoolgirl whose lie about Paty’s alleged discrimination against Muslims […]
(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, […]
(BBC) A man with extremist views who shared videos online to encourage other people to plan and carry out terror attacks has been jailed. Devices owned by Mohammed Jaza Hamasaleh were found by counter-terror police in a raid on his home in […]
(BBC) A Leicester police officer who sparked international headlines over religious tensions has been cleared of misconduct by an independent investigation. Thousands of people signed a petition calling for Sgt Adam Ahmed to be suspended after he stopped a Hindu procession and […]
(BBC) An asylum seeker who piloted a boat in the English Channel where four passengers drowned has lost his bid to challenge his convictions and sentence. Ibrahima Bah was convicted of manslaughter and of facilitating a breach of UK immigration law and […]
(BBC) A woman has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an inquiry into material taken into a prison. Counter Terrorism Policing North East also charged three other individuals following an investigation at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster. Rhea Wood, 35, […]
(BBC) An asylum seeker convicted of manslaughter after piloting a boat across the Channel where four passengers drowned has made a bid to bring a challenge against his convictions and sentence at the Court of Appeal. Ibrahima Bah was sentenced to nine […]
(BBC) Just after 07:30 on 6 September last year, Skye Vokins was driving along the dual carriageway south of Wandsworth Roundabout, in London. Scarcely believing her eyes, she saw a man land on the road beneath the rear axle of a delivery […]
(BBC) A terrorist friend of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been freed from jail. Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was a childhood friend of Abedi, was released from HMP Full Sutton in East Yorkshire on Tuesday when his sentence came to an end. […]
(BBC) A father whose daughter was killed in the Manchester Arena attack has described the decision to block legal action against MI5 as “pathetic.” Andrew Roussos’s daughter Saffie-Rose, eight, was the youngest of the 22 people killed in the bombing in 2017. […]
(BBC) A police officer arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence has been released on bail pending further enquiries. The Gloucestershire police officer was arrested on Tuesday by Counter Terrorism Policing South West, and he has been suspended from all duties by […]
(BBC) The former headteacher of a French school has revealed the shocking sequence of events that led to the beheading of Samuel Paty by a Chechen refugee. Audrey F told the court in Paris how she had tried to stop a row […]
(BBC) A teenager gained a place at an Islamic Sunday school in order to teach her “extremist” beliefs to young children, a court has heard. Dzhamilya Timaeva, 19, from Windsor, saw it as a “duty” of her Islamic faith to “wage war […]
(BBC) Two men have been convicted of distributing terrorism material in support of Islamic State (IS). Shaan Farooq, 19, from Saltley in Birmingham, had a phone, laptop, tablet and iPad containing extremist material and images which he intended to distribute to encourage […]
(BBC) A conspiracist who claimed the Manchester Arena bombing attack was staged has been ordered to pay £45,000 in damages. Two survivors of the attack, which killed 22 people, have been awarded damages of £22,500 each against former TV producer Richard Hall. […]
(BBC) MI5 showed “institutional defensiveness rather than candour” after the Manchester Arena attack and for years continued to present an “inaccurate picture” of what it had known about the suicide bomber, a tribunal has been told. Twenty-two people died and hundreds were […]
(BBC) The former British Army soldier accused of spying for Iran and escaping from prison has told a court he agreed to travel to the Middle Eastern country but “purposefully sabotaged the operation.” Giving evidence at his trial at Woolwich Crown Court, […]
(BBC) A former doctor has admitted causing “painful cruelty to children” by running a mobile circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, was a practising doctor at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust when he started visiting homes to carry out […]
(BBC) The former British soldier accused of spying for Iran and escaping from prison has said he is “a patriot” who loves his country. Giving evidence for the first time in his trial at Woolwich Crown Court, Daniel Khalife said “I am […]
(BBC) The number of migrants who have crossed the Channel in small boats in 2024 has already surpassed 2023’s total for the year, figures show. On Friday, 424 migrants crossed the Channel to bring 2024’s total up to 29,578 — compared to […]
(BBC) A Metropolitan Police officer who posted abusive tweets about Jewish and non-Muslim people has been dismissed without notice. Ruby Begum, 29, admitted to a police misconduct hearing she used language such as “dirty Zionists” while serving as a special constable but […]
(BBC) A “misguided” father-of-two who sent US dollars to a nephew who was fighting for an Islamist terrorist group in Syria has been given a community sentence. Restaurant worker Farhad Mohammad, [46], from Colchester, made payments totalling $350 (£270) suspecting his relative […]
(BBC) A jury has seen CCTV footage of a former soldier reading newspaper articles about his breakout from prison while allegedly on the run. Video shown at the Woolwich Crown Court trial of Daniel Khalife showed him in a west London newsagent […]
(BBC) A man who shared online material “glorifying acts of terrorism” in support of the Islamic State group (IS) has been given a community order. Ryan Scuffil, from Somerset, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in London on Monday following an […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of escaping prison “congratulated” a police officer on catching him after he was stopped on a west London canal towpath, a court has heard. The plain-clothes detective sergeant, who was not named in court, said he […]
(BBC) The 13-year-old boy should have been in school last Thursday, instead of sitting in a police station in central Gothenburg. But police say he fired shots outside the offices of Israeli tech firm Elbit Systems. “He was basically caught in the […]
(BBC) A teenager from Birmingham has been charged with terrorism offences. Adam Mahmood, 19, has been accused of disseminating terrorism material, West Midlands Police confirmed. A force spokesperson said he was arrested at a residential address in April this year during a […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of spying has claimed he made up much of the information he sent to the Iranians. Daniel Khalife, 23, is on trial at Woolwich Crown Court on charges of collecting sensitive military information for Iran as […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of spying for Iran first tried to make contact with the Iranians by sending a Facebook message, a trial has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, is on trial on charges of collecting sensitive military information for Iran […]
(BBC) A mentally unwell man sparked fears of an imminent terrorist attack in a city centre, a court has heard. Armed police swooped on Sunderland city centre last October after Mahmoud Mabad, 38, shouted he was a terrorist and began filming people […]
(BBC) A former British army soldier who is accused of being a spy for Iran and escaping from Wandsworth Prison last year offered to go for training in Iran, a court heard. The jury at his Woolwich Crown Court trial heard the […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of being a spy for Iran twice contacted MI6 to offer his services as a double agent, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, now 23, denies gathering information for Iran, compiling a list of special forces […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of passing secret information to Iran gathered the names of service personnel, including those in special forces, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, is separately accused of escaping from Wandsworth Prison last year by strapping […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of escaping from Wandsworth prison last year made contact with Iranian security forces before telling MI6 he wanted to work as a double agent, a trial has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, has gone on trial on […]
(BBC) A university academic found guilty of conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in a “landmark case” has been jailed. Emad Kaky, who lived in Nottingham at the time he offended, arranged for a young girl to travel to Iraq, where […]
(BBC) Sweden’s security service Sapo has said that Iran may have been involved in the explosions and gunfire that took place near the Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen earlier this week. Fredrik Hallstrom of Sapo said that choice of targets and […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist and childhood friend of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has lost his bid to be released from prison. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 31, faced a parole review after being recalled to prison for breaching licence conditions in 2021. Abdallah, from […]
(BBC) The murder of a 19-year-old female student in an exclusive neighbourhood of Paris is fuelling new calls from the French right for tougher action on immigration. The body of the young woman, named only as Philippine, was found on Saturday, half-buried […]
(BBC) A former counter-terrorism detective agreed an investigation was prematurely closed into a man later convicted of helping an alleged extremist flee the UK after murdering an imam. Former detective inspector Frank Morris, who retired from Greater Manchester Police in 2021, told […]
(BBC) Two Islamic State extremists who planned the murder of an imam referred to him as “Voldemort” who was engaging in “black magic,” a public inquiry has heard. The inquiry aims to establish whether intelligence failures contributed to the death of Jalal […]
(BBC) More than 25,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year. A provisional total of 25,052 was reached as Home Office data confirmed 717 migrants arrived on Sunday. The figure is higher than that for the […]
(BBC) A man has been jailed for sharing “horrific” beheading videos glorifying the Islamic State (IS) group. Faseh Sajid was 18 when he began posting videos featuring armed IS fighters and mass execution in an encrypted group chat. The material was found […]
(BBC) A former doctor used a rusty medical instrument to circumcise children and gave insufficient pain relief, a court has heard. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, caused “unnecessary pain and suffering” to 23 children from Muslim families, Southwark Crown Court was told. […]
(BBC) A man who used a fake name to send “vile” racist messages on a messaging app with thousands of members to provoke violence has been jailed for two years and four months. The court heard Ehsan Hussain, himself Pakistani, used the […]
(BBC) A man has admitted posting social media messages designed to stir up racial [hatred] as riots hit the UK. Ehsan Hussain, from Birmingham, has been warned to expect a substantial custodial sentence. The 25-year-old pleaded guilty at the city’s magistrates’ court […]
(BBC) A Swiss appeals court has convicted the prominent scholar of Islam Tariq Ramadan of rape, overturning a previous acquittal dating back to 2023. Swiss broadcaster RTS reported that, at the end of August, the court ruled Ramadan must serve a three-year […]
(BBC) A former PhD student has been found guilty of conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in what has been described as a “landmark case.” Emad Kaky arranged for a young girl to travel from the UK to Iraq, where she […]
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