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White Terror Suspects Overtake Asians in UK for First time in Over a Decade

The number of white terror suspects arrested by British counter-terrorism officers has overtaken Asians for the first time in over a decade, according to new figures released by the Home Office.

Indicating a growing threat from far-right extremism in the country, figures released last Thursday (13) show a total of 351 arrests were made over the past year until June 2018 where terrorism related activity was suspected, with 133 of them white and 129 recorded as Asian ethnic appearance.


This was the first time, since the year ending June 2005, that the proportion of white people arrested has exceeded the proportion of Asian people arrested, a Home Office statement noted. White people arrested on suspicion of terror-ism accounted for 38 per cent of terrorist related arrests in the latest period an increase of four percentage points on the previous year.

There were falls in the proportion of arrests of those of Asian ethnic appearance, down seven percentage points to 37 per cent, and those of black ethnic appearance, down two percentage points to nine per cent.

As part of wider data collated within the Home Office document titled Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation, it emerged UK police had arrested 60 people who gave their “self-defined nationality” as Indians on suspicion of terrorist-related activity since September 2001, when such data collation began.

India ranks ninth among the UK’s top nationalities for the number of such arrests over the last 17 years, with Great Britain (2,542), Alegria (186), Pakistan (165), Iraq (158), Afghanistan (89), Iran (84), Somalia (77), Turkey (76) and Ire-land (44) completing the top 10.

“Since September 11, 2001, 60 per cent of those arrested considered themselves to be of British or British dual nationality,” the Home Office said.

The figures also reveal a total of 100 people went to trial in the year ending June 30 this year an increase of 39 per cent on the previous year. Of those, 90 were convicted, the highest number since data collection began in 2009.

Out of the 92 individuals charged with a terrorism-related offence, 48 were prosecuted, and 46 of those were convicted and two were found not guilty.

“We may have seen a reduction in the number of arrests in the last 12 months, but we should put that in context by saying that we prevented 13 Islamist-related and four extreme right-wing plots since March 2017, so it certainly doesn’t indicate a reduction in the threat we all face from terrorism,” said deputy assistant commissioner Dean Haydon, Scotland Yard’s counter-terror police senior national coordinator.

The latest figures cover the use of an-ti-terrorism powers in Britain and re-veal that 234 arrests were registered in the “international” category. This includes suspected activity linked to or motivated by terrorist groups abroad such as Islamic State (ISIS).

“There have been steady increases in recent years in the number of terrorist prisoners across all the types of ideolo-gies covered, although the number of Islamist extremist prisoners saw a slight decrease, for the first time, of four per cent, to 178 in custody,” the Home Office said.

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