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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Number of teenagers being radicalised for terror online rises five-fold in four years

The number of teenagers being radicalised online into terrorist activity has risen five-fold in the past four years in a “contagion” of “real concern”, the country’s head of counter-terror policing warned on Thursday.

Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes said some teenagers were downloading instructions for printing 3D firearms and bomb-making equipment in a “new and emerging threat” that risked bringing extremist violence to the streets.

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