Police must trawl through the social media accounts of people applying for firearms licences to prevent those with extremist views from having access to deadly weapons, a former Metropolitan Police chief has said.
The call comes as ministers were urged to classify men who espouse hatred towards women online as potential terrorist threats because they embrace a radical and dangerous ideology.
On Saturday night, Jake Davison, the misogynist gunman who went on a killing spree in Plymouth, was hailed on websites used by incels – involuntary celibates – as a “saint”. Others called for copycat killings on forums feared to be radicalising young boys as young as 13.
Undercover police today told of their snap decision to open fire on Streatham terrorist Sudesh Amman, as jurors were shown CCTV depicting the moment he suddenly charged at police before being shot and writhing wildly on the ground where he later died.
Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple’s home in Grimsby.
