Children as young as 10 referred to counter-terror police amid surge in radicalisation through online video games

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Children as young as 10 referred to counter-terror police amid surge in radicalisation through online video games.

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Senior counter-terrorism officers have revealed troubling figures showing children as young as 10 being enrolled in the Government's Prevent deradicalisation programme over incidents of violence and terrorism.Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, who leads UK counter-terrorism policing, warned that one in five of those arrested on terrorism charges in the UK are now minors, citing violent video games as a driving factor.According to newly emerged police data, close to 3,000 individuals referred to Prevent reported being radicalised by terrorists through online video game platforms.It was during a gathering of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance that Mr Taylor made the disclosure among security officials from Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say He told the assembly: "We arrested 40 children for terrorism-related offences in the UK.

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That is one in five of our arrests.

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Ten years ago, that was one in 20."We have 10-year-olds in...

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