A 14-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence after police discovered an alleged plan to target two London mosques that was linked to “extreme right-wing terrorism”.<\/p>\n
The child was initially arrested at an address in south London on suspicion of criminal damage to a vehicle, but officers found “a number of documents of concern”, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n
He is accused of planning to target the two places of worship in Sutton and has been remanded in custody. <\/p>\n
He is due at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday charged with preparation of terrorist acts on or before 9 July, and racially aggravated damage to property, the force said.<\/p>\n
Det Ch Supt Nick Blackburn, in charge of local policing for the south London area, said: “These charges come just days after 12 people were arrested for a suspected threat to an Islamic festival in Suffolk and a man was arrested for an alleged assault outside a mosque in Leyton.”<\/p>\n
He added: “We should not underestimate the cumulative impact of incidents of this nature on the Muslim community.”<\/p>\n
Cdr Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London, said it was a “very serious terrorism charge against a young boy” and “particularly concerning” to the Muslim community.<\/p>\n
She said they were seeing an increasing number of children and young people in their casework.<\/p>\n
The Met said it had been working closely with counter terrorism teams on the probe and had increased patrols in affected areas.<\/p>\n
There is not believed to be “any enduring or wider threat” and police are not seeking anyone else in connection with the incidents, a statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence after police discovered an alleged plan to target…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}