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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

‘Emerging threat’: Rising number of suspected incels referred to UK counter-terror police

PA Media

A rising number of suspected radical misogynists are being referred to the Prevent counter-terrorism scheme, as security services monitor them as an “emerging threat”.

The numbers of so-called incels have been revealed for the first time, as an increasing proportion of police resources are taken up by people falling outside of previously dominant jihadist and extreme right-wing groups.

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