Three UK terror attacks were foiled at 'late stage' in last year, counter terror chief reveals as she issues warning over 'smouldering' threat level
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Three UK terror attacks were foiled at 'late stage' in last year, counter terror chief reveals as she issues warning over 'smouldering' threat level

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Police have foiled three late stag terror plots in the last year alone amid a 'smouldering' threat level, a senior officer warned yesterday. Vicki Evans, senior national co-ordinator for counter terrorism policing, said the two Islamist and one extreme right-wing plot they had prevented would have led to mass casualties. Vicki Evans, the senior national co-ordinator for counter terrorism policing, warned of a 'smouldering' terror threat The Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner warned that expressing support for HTS, the group that has taken control of the country, would be considered a crime because it has banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK. Ms Evans said: 'What is new and becoming far more common and more prevalent is this rapidly increasing fascination with extreme violence and extreme content that we're seeing throughout our case work.

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