The #Streatham attacker has been identified as Sudesh Amman. He was released a week ago after having served half of his sentence for Islamist related terrorism offences. Some thoughts below: 1. Sudesh was 17 when he started collecting terrorist material and attempting to radicalise others (including his girlfriend). He was caught on possession of bomb making material and other propaganda. He had sent extremist material on a WhatsApp group to his family.

Good afternoon. To round off the week, I’m sharing some analysis I’ve done on counter terrorism prosecutions in 2018.

People often ask me the “role” of social media and the internet in radicalisation and extremism. These cases and stats are a good start (but not whole picture) In 2018 to date, there have been 25 counter terrorism prosecutions. 20 of these have had some element of the internet or tech involved - whether to prosecute terrorist material, communicate, or spread hatred and stir up religious controversy.