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The Plymouth shooting is a perfect illustration of the failure of the UK’s counter-terrorism apparatus to fully understand emerging threats, argues Dr Maria Norris.
By Dr Maria Norris
'It is a different sort of ideology'. This was the way in which Jonathan Hall QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, described the recent shooting in Plymouth, which saw Jake Davison kill five people including his mother and a three-year-old girl, before taking his own life.
It has now emerged that the killings may be reclassified as a terror attack, after initially being described as a 'domestic incident'. However, comments like Hall’s suggest that there is still much cause for concern.
Hall argued that the shooting 'fits rather uneasily into the way the authorities understand ideologies' and 'seems part of right-wing terrorism but it is not really. In fact, it is quite separate from it'.
Such comments are illustrative of a fundamental problem at the core of the UK’s counter-terroris...
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