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Believe me when I say this isn't anywhere close to the wildest thing about this case. I'll post the article here when it's out

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ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat

Police in Ireland have seized a “very significant” bomb that was being driven towards the border with Northern Ireland Its target is not known but the investigation points to dissident republicans, officials say, following two recent attempted car bombings inews.co.uk/news/woman-d...

The Home Office just responded to a freedom of information request I lodged on *26 November 2024* The document provided shows the data I requested was extracted on 6 January 2025, and it only covers the period until September 2024 "We apologise for the delay" letter says, but gives no explanation

A number of recent terror attacks have taken place where perpetrators changed targets during planning As the cases in my book show, a lot of plotters begin with grander and more fatal ambitions than they're able to realise, and switch to easier targets and methods www.amazon.co.uk/Plotters-UK-...

There will be more to come on this from the Independent Office for Police Conduct's review of GMP’s past investigations into al-Shamie, and the inquests into his death and those of the Manchester synagogue attack victims I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg regarding red flags around al-Shamie

All of that is a nailed on prosecution - as it has been for Bashir - for preparing acts of terrorism, which carries a potential life sentence But when al-Shamie was arrested for rape over a month later on 21 September 2025, and had his phone seized for the second time, the police didn't look at it

Al-Shamie may have been considering a lone attack before, but concerted planning with Bashir took place in August 2025 They conducted hostile reconnaissance of the UK Defence Academy and discussed weapons, fake suicide vests and martyrdom. The chats and online searches were on al-Shamie's phone

Court evidence suggests al-Shamie had been committing terror offences for at least a year before his attack He set up a jihadist WhatsApp group in September 2024 where terrorist material was shared and attacks were glorified (s1, s2, s58 TACT). The phone containing that info was seized in Feb 2025

That is underplaying it. The phones contained evidence of attack plotting with al-Shamie's friend Mohammed Bashir, who got a life sentence today for preparing acts of terrorism The pair's original target was the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham, where they believed IDF soldiers were trained

GMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson said a watchdog investigation and inquest will examine the impact of failing to examine al-Shamie's phones but there's "the information contained within these devices would have inspired further investigative action" because of evidence of his "extremist mindset"

The arrests were for breach of a non-molestation order and alleged rape, he wasn't a known terror threat The fact al-Shamie's phones were not examined and he remained out on bail at the time of the 2 October 2025 attack tells its own story about the handling of sexual offence and domestic abuse

Astonishing admission from Greater Manchester Police today that they failed to examine Jihad al-Shamie's phones after arresting him in February and September last year If they had looked, they would have found evidence of him planning a terror attack before he struck the Heaton Park synagogue

Back from holiday today, continuing a pretty impressive run of disappearing during moments of major British political upheaval Sharing this story which was published while I was away, on the previous cyber attacks by one of the British teenagers behind the TfL hack inews.co.uk/news/british...

Got to a tv and kind of wish I hadn't

Now doing this and a lot easier to understand what's going on

I'm currently in a car being driven across Belgium because of Eurotunnel delays and I don't know if listening to the England Argentina match on French radio is a more or less stressful experience than watching it on TV

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with planning a far-right terror attack on two mosques in Sutton, south-west London, and racially aggravated vandalism of a car If convicted he would be one of the youngest ever terror plotters in Britain

But is it feasible for a political party to maintain a broad position against restrictions on online speech, while at the same time demanding action on threats and hatred on social media when it's directed at them? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...