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The Independent
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Police to receive new powers to help prevent violent attacks
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper confirmed new powers for police and courts to deal with suspects planning mass killings. The new tools aim to close a legal gap between terror suspects, who face life imprisonment for planning attacks, and non-ideological individuals planning similar mass atrocities. Police will be empowered to apprehend suspects based on preparatory steps, such as research, even without an ideological link, mirroring existing anti- terrorism legislation. Cooper stated that mass attacks, regardless of ideological motivation, can cause devastation comparable to terrorism and should be treated with similar seriousness. The legislation could have applied to cases like the Southport attacker, Axel Rudakubana, who murdered three girls and received a life sentence. Criminals plotting mass killings to be detained earlier under new law
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Criminals plotting mass killings to be detained earlier under new law
Police and courts are to be given powers to deal with suspects believed to be planning mass killings, the Home Secretary has confirmed. Yvette Cooper said the new tools will enable the criminal justice system to "close the gap" between terror suspects, who face life imprisonment for planning attacks, and non-ideological individuals. Police will be empowered to apprehend them before attacks are carried out. In an interview, Ms Cooper told BBC Radio 4's State of Terror series: 'There is a gap in the law around the planning of mass attacks that can be just as serious (as terrorism) in their implications for communities, their impact, the devastation that they can cause and the seriousness of the crime. 'We will tighten legislation so that that is taken as seriously as terrorism.' Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said police would be given powers to apprehend suspects before they carry out attacks (PA Wire) She said legislation would be similar to that which allows police to arrest terror suspects for steps taken to prepare for an attack, such as research, which is not currently available without links to an ideological cause. Ms Cooper added: 'We've seen cases of growing numbers of teenagers potentially radicalising themselves online and seeing all kinds of extremist material online in their bedrooms. 'We have to make sure that the systems can respond while not taking our eye off the ball of the more long-standing ideological threats.' Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana, who killed three girls at a dance class, is among the individuals who could have been covered by the legislation. Axel Rudakubana was given a life sentence in January, with a minimum term of 52 years – one of the highest minimum terms on record – for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on July 29 last year. The 18-year-old also attempted to murder eight other children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, as well as class instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.
The Independent
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Criminals plotting mass killings to be detained earlier under new law
Police and courts are to be given powers to deal with suspects believed to be planning mass killings, the Home Secretary has confirmed. Yvette Cooper said the new tools will enable the criminal justice system to "close the gap" between terror suspects, who face life imprisonment for planning attacks, and non-ideological individuals. Police will be empowered to apprehend them before attacks are carried out. In an interview, Ms Cooper told BBC Radio 4 's State of Terror series: 'There is a gap in the law around the planning of mass attacks that can be just as serious (as terrorism) in their implications for communities, their impact, the devastation that they can cause and the seriousness of the crime. 'We will tighten legislation so that that is taken as seriously as terrorism.' She said legislation would be similar to that which allows police to arrest terror suspects for steps taken to prepare for an attack, such as research, which is not currently available without links to an ideological cause. Ms Cooper added: 'We've seen cases of growing numbers of teenagers potentially radicalising themselves online and seeing all kinds of extremist material online in their bedrooms. 'We have to make sure that the systems can respond while not taking our eye off the ball of the more long-standing ideological threats.' Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana, who killed three girls at a dance class, is among the individuals who could have been covered by the legislation. Axel Rudakubana was given a life sentence in January, with a minimum term of 52 years – one of the highest minimum terms on record – for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on July 29 last year. The 18-year-old also attempted to murder eight other children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, as well as class instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Yvette Cooper pledges new power to stop violent attackers after Southport
The home secretary says a powerful new crime to target suspects who are found to be preparing mass killings will ensure their plotting is taken as seriously as Cooper said the criminal justice system had to be given new tools to respond to violence-fixated individuals who are not motivated by a particular ideology, in the wake of the Southport attack last suspects who take steps towards an attack can be jailed for life, even if their plans are not fully told the BBC that the government will "close the gap" between such offenders and lone, violence-obsessed individuals by giving police the power to apprehend them long before they can act. Axel Rudakubana is serving a life sentence for murdering three girls when he attacked a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport almost a year others girls were seriously injured, along with two adults who tried to stop the police found he had been researching a target prior to the attack, they could not have arrested and charged him with a serious offence because he had no ideological motive linked to the definition of to BBC Radio 4's State of Terror series, which charts the response to violent extremism over the 20 years since the 7/7 bombings, Cooper said the police will get the power to prevent such individuals who do not have a clear ideology, in the same way they can with terror suspects. "There is a gap in the law around the planning of mass attacks that can be just as serious [as terrorism] in their implications for communities, their impact, the devastation that they can cause and the seriousness of the crime," she said."We will tighten legislation so that that is taken as seriously as terrorism."Cooper said the plan - which was briefly announced in March but not fleshed out until now - was for the new law to be similar to the exceptionally serious crime of preparing for acts of legislation, brought in after the 2005 London bombings, is a vital counter-extremism tool that has jailed dozens of allows the police to arrest a terror suspect for the steps they take to prepare for an attack - such as researching a it stipulates that there must also be evidence the preparation is linked to an ideological cause, such as support of a group banned under terrorism laws. The planned non-terror offence would apply to a far wider range of scenarios, including the activity of individuals like Nicholas Prosper. He had been planning a mass school shooting before he was apprehended for murdering his said: "We've seen cases of growing numbers of teenagers potentially radicalising themselves online and seeing all kinds of extremist material online in their bedrooms."They're seeing a really distorted and warped online world."We have to make sure that that the systems can respond while not taking our eye off the ball of the more long-standing ideological threats."State of Terror continues on Monday on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
CTV News
06-06-2025
- CTV News
Canadian man with ties to Osama Bin Laden arrested in Montreal for planned mass attack
Video CTV's Kamil Karamali reports on a Montreal arrest of a Canadian man linked to Osama Bin Laden, accused of plotting mass killings.
