Study:

Terrorism in UK Trebles in Five Years

Rasa - A major new study revealed terror attacks in the UK have more than tripled in the last five years, local media said.

News ID: 427908

Date: 05 March 2017 - 23:45

RNA - The shocking report also reveals that terror-related offences have doubled in the last five years, while the rate of beheadings and stabbings has increased eleven-fold, Daily Mirror reported.

London and Birmingham have been identified as housing the most offenders, with East London home to half of London-based offenders, 22 per cent overall, the most common boroughs being Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest.

The study identifies all extremism-inspired terrorism convictions and suicide attacks in the UK between 1998 and 2015.

The 1,000-page report, published by the Hannah Stuart and the Henry Jackson Society, says this type of terrorism remains the principal terrorism threat to both the United Kingdom and British interests overseas.

London was the place of residence at the time of arrest in 43 per cent of terror-related offences.

The second most common region was the West Midlands, with 18 per cent of arrests - 14 per cent of which came from Birmingham.

The report claims that 'offenders lived in neighbourhoods with both a higher than average relative deprivation and Muslim population.'

According to the society, there were 264 convictions between 1998 and 2015 involving 253 British or foreign nationals.

And the role of women in terrorism has trebled, from four per cent in the years 1998-2010, to 11 per cent in 2011-2015.

Some 72 per cent of those committing offences are British nationals, 47 per cent are in full time work or education and 76 per cent have been known to the authorities.

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