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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Michael Holden

UK police warn younger children involved in far-right terrorism

Britain's head of counter-terrorism policing said on Thursday the police had serious concern about a rise in the number of young people and children becoming caught up in far-right extremism.

Matt Jukes said youngsters, mainly boys in their early teens, were becoming self-radicalised online and then progressing to actually planning terrorist attacks.

"We're talking about boys principally 14, 15 years old," Jukes told reporters. "This is a group which is substantially younger than we have seen in the past."

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