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MI5 had intelligence the London Bridge terrorist was plotting an attack before his release from prison, a court has heard. Convicted terrorist Usman Khan, 28, killed Cambridge University graduates Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, during a prisoner rehabilitation event near London Bridge on November 29 2019. Khan, who was armed with two knives … Read more
Queen names ex-head of MI5 Andrew Parker as most senior member of her Royal household Baron Parker of Minsmere will take up new role as Lord Chamberlain on April 1 He will succeed Earl Peel, 73, who is retiring after more than 14 years in the post Baron Parker served as director general of the MI5 … Read more
Four people, including two former MI5 officers and a former prosecutor, will not face criminal proceedings as part of a major investigation into a top British spy within the IRA’s notorious ‘nutting squad’. Prosecutors in Northern Ireland said that the fourth person, understood to be Stakeknife – the high-ranking Army agent within the IRA – … Read more
MI5 burgled my flat in hunt for mole who handed me secret documents, says former Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd Elfyn Llwyd found hole cut in his bathroom ceiling and paper taken from his flat Documents marked ‘from a friend’ enabled him to embarrass John Redwood Break-in of Plaid Cymru MP’s home happened during John Major’s … Read more
Britain’s enemies could carry out a coronavirus-inspired bioterror attack, the new head of MI5 warned yesterday. Ken McCallum said the UK’s adversaries will have taken note how the global pandemic has ‘turned the world upside down’ – and could try to make weapons from deadly viruses in future. In his first speech since taking over as … Read more
Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi was brought to the attention of M15 on at least 18 occasions before the 2017 terror attack, a public inquiry has heard. Security services received their first alert about him in 2010, and he was made a ‘subject of interest’ in 2014 but the file was dropped four months later. … Read more
MI5 are to be granted tough new powers to make the UK a harsher environment for Kremlin spies to operate in after a damning report by MPs said the Government ‘took its eye off the ball.’ In a devastating and long-awaited report, intelligence and security committee said the UK ‘badly underestimated’ the Russian threat as … Read more
Press watchdog’s offshoot funds website accused of publishing conspiracy theories about terror attacks – including one suggesting MI5 may have arranged the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) handed grant to 5Pillars this year 5Pillars ran pieces questioning MI5’s alleged links to murder of Lee Rigby in 2013 PINF is … Read more
A terror suspect watchlist has doubled in size from last year – but expert estimates and new figures suggest far-right extremists are just a tiny part of the problem. Britain’s top anti-terror officer Neil Basu has repeatedly said that right-wing extremism poses the fastest growing terror threat to the UK. But while MI5’s watchlist has … Read more
Smiling broadly, future MI5 chief Ken McCallum enjoys a drink with the hockey club teammates, who prophetically gave him the nickname ‘007’. This exclusive picture of Mr McCallum, who will soon become the youngest ever director general of the domestic security agency, was taken in the 1990s when he was in his early 20s and captain … Read more