Police say they are ‘keeping an open mind’ about a suspected arson attack at an Islamic prayer room at Manchester Airport. The cabin is used by taxi drivers and airport staff for worship. The blaze broke out on Saturday – the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New [...]
Britain’s eccentrics, recluses and misanthropes, you can relax. Ignoring neighbours and keeping your curtains permanently shut to the world outside might not win you many friends, but you’re no longer likely to be denounced as a possible terrorist. A radio advert that urged listeners to consider calling the police’s anti-terrorist [...]
Four police officers were told today they will go on trial accused of attacking a terrorist suspect nearly seven years ago. The officers will be charged with assaulting Babar Ahmad as they arrested him during a raid at his home in Tooting, south London. Full story here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/officers-charged-with-assaulting-terror-suspect-2050452.html
Police found a pipe packed with nails and screws and charged with powder in the 16 year old’s bedroom, and a pipe with a firework inside hidden under a waste oil tank at a nearby petrol station. The youngster also had literature from the right wing groups the British National [...]
Police will need fresh powers enabling them to stop and search people at the Olympics opening ceremony, and in other sensitive circumstances, the government’s independent adviser on terrorism law is expected to warn today. Lord Carlile, who is due to deliver a keynote speech at Dorchester Abbey, near Oxford, this [...]
Two Neo-Nazis have been sentenced to a total of four-and-a-half years behind bars by a judge at Liverpool Crown Court, for inciting racial hatred. Food packer Michael Heaton, 42, was handed a 30-month jail term for “using threatening and abusive language likely to stir up racial hatred”. His co-defendant Trevor [...]
Counterterrorism police have targeted hundreds of surveillance cameras on two Muslim areas of Birmingham, enabling them to track the precise movements of people entering and leaving the neighbourhoods. The project has principally been sold to locals as an attempt to combat antisocial behaviour, vehicle crime and drug dealing in the [...]
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