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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

‘Pick and mix of horror’ online pushes young people to violence, UK police chief says

Boy looking at phone on a park bench at night
Evans said officers were seeing search histories that contained a mix of violence, misogyny, gore, racism and extreme pornography. Photograph: Brian Moore/Alamy

More young people, including children aged 10, are viewing a “pick and mix of horror” on the web that pushes them towards violence, a UK counter-terrorism leader has said.

Deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans of the Metropolitan police, the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism, said the nature of radicalisation had changed and warned of a “rapidly increasing fascination with extreme content that we’re seeing throughout our casework”.

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