Reading stabbings: Labour calls for review of 'lone actor' terrorism after third attack in seven months

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nick Thomas-Symonds, Labour’s shadow home secretary, has written to Priti Patel calling for a review to examine the role of prisons, probation, mental health services and local authorities at “critical points”. When looking to identify, monitor and, in some cases, treat subjects who pose an enormous risk to society, we rely on a wide range of services.” Mr Thomas-Symonds called the knife attacks at Fishmongers’ Hall, Streatham and Reading “eerily similar”, while a fourth attack allegedly took place inside a high-security prison in January. “Now we must come together and redouble efforts to ensure each of these vital services have the resources they need and are working together in the most effective and impactful way, ultimately in a bid to save lives.” It comes after a review of intelligence held before the 2017 terror attacks by Lord Anderson of Ipswich, which made more than 100 recommendations for change. The home secretary previously told MPs that the terrorist threat from lone actors was growing and announced that Jonathan Hall QC, the current Independent Review of Terrorism Legislation, would examine how “different agencies - including the police, probation services and security services - investigate, monitor and manage terrorist offenders”.