When Holly Passmore heard a knock at her front door at about 11am on July 4 last year, she assumed it was an Amazon delivery.
Instead, the 44-year-old mother-of-two from County Durham found two plain-clothes police officers on her doorstep wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel.
“They said it was a safeguarding matter,” recalled Ms Passmore, who cares for her nine-year-old son, Rex, who has severe autism, while studying for a master’s degree.
The UK is a nut house.
What is the UK’s Prevent program?
The UK’s Prevent program is a government-led, multi-agency early intervention initiative designed to stop vulnerable individuals from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Managed by the Home Office, Prevent operates as the preventative branch of the UK’s broader CONTEST counter-terrorism.
