30 July 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 30 July 2024, Anjem Choudary, 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 28 years for directing a terrorist organisation and encouraging support for a terrorist organisation following a joint investigation between MI5, the Metropolitan Police Service, the New York Police Department (NYPD), and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) {X}{X}. Each of the charges related to the proscribed organisation, al-Muhajiroun. Anjem Choudary helped found al-Muhajiroun in 1996 and...
17 July 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 16 July 2024, a 16-year-old from Stockton-on-Tees was given a three year Youth Rehabilitation Order and a three year Criminal Behaviour Order, after admitting to possessing Extreme Right-Wing material and distributing harmful material to others on social media {X}. The individual was arrested in December 2023 by counterterrorism police after his teachers became concerned over slogans and pictures he had written on a mock exam paper – including a picture of Auschwitz and racist comments {X}. A...
28 February 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 27 February 2024, three individuals were charged with preparing an act of terrorism following an investigation into a suspected Extreme Right-Wing attack plot against an Islamic Education centre.{X} It is alleged that the individuals prepared for the attack by acquiring instructions on making a 3D-printed firearm. Following a search of the defendants’ homes, detectives reportedly found a 3D printer, a 3D-printed FGC-9 semi-automatic firearm, various decommissioned firearms, knives, and...
28 February 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 23 February 2024, an individual was convicted of preparation of terrorist acts. In a document titled “My Plan”, the individual claimed he wanted to kill at least 50 people by attacking government buildings and politicians’ houses.{X} The individual had told police that he was “left-wing”, but “more like an anarchist”, and had become motivated by both a hatred of the government and ecological concerns including: pollution, the destruction of forests,...
04 October 2023 | Deep Dive, Islamist Terrorism, Right Wing Terrorism
Author: Becca Stewart ASyI, Threat Analyst Read Time: 10 minutes Since 2010, in-person radicalisation has been linked to the majority of significant terrorism-related incidents in the UK. At the same time, rates of online radicalisation have been increasing rapidly resulting in growing numbers of convictions for online terrorism offences. Following the December 2022 publication of a report by His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) exploring “the internet and radicalisation pathways” of convicted terrorists in the UK [1], this...
