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    Police let neo-Nazi who radicalised teenager leave the country

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    1. DaveBeBad on

      So the telegraph wants *some* foreign criminals to face the consequences in the UK?

    2. travelcallcharlie on

      Where’s the “deport all foreign criminals” crowd with this one?

    3. Weird_Point_4262 on

      So let me get this straight. The mother of this teenager hooked up with a neo-nazi that she found via a penpal programme while he was in prison. She invited him to the UK and housed him. He sexually assaulted and groomed her child into his ideology. The daughter is charged with terrorism for this, eventually resulting in her suicide.

      And the mother gets off scot free for endangering her child like this? We’re supposed to believe she didn’t know the guy was a neo-nazi?

    4. DukePPUk on

      Oh look, the usual nonsense from the Telegraph.

      The police didn’t “let” him leave. He left. The police don’t seem to have had any grounds to stop him leaving. Being a neo-Nazi isn’t illegal in the UK (in general). He was interviewed at the airport (presumably a Schedule 7 Terrorism Act stop and question), but the article doesn’t suggest he was being investigated for breaking any laws.

      Or does the Telegraph think the Government should be locking up anyone suspected of being a neo-Nazi or far-right radical, just for their political views? [The cynic in me says they’d probably love it – so many outrage-generating articles to write about it.]

      The other interesting thing about this story is the treatment of the teenager:

      > Counter-terrorism police began investigating Rhianan in September 2020 after Ms Carter reported her concerns to Prevent, the anti-radicalisation programme, “over her concerns about Rhianan’s obsession with far-Right material, explaining how she went from an interest in the two world wars to admiring Hitler”.

      > Mallaburn left Britain in October 2020, shortly before police arrested the teenager and later charged her with downloading a bomb-making manual online.

      > The case was delayed before the charges were eventually dropped following an intervention by the Home Office, which concluded she had been a victim of trafficking who had been groomed and sexually exploited.

      The article (correctly) treats the teenager as the victim here. But I cannot help but think of some other teenagers over the last few years, groomed and radicalised into extremism, who were treated far more harshly by the press (including one charged with the same law, which to many proved he was an evil terrorist). I know every case is different, but there seems to be a fine and somewhat subjective line between “evil terrorist who can never be forgiven or redeemed” and “innocent victim lured into extremism by bad people” when it comes to children and young people.

    5. 0ttoChriek on

      So the Telegraph believes that extremist political interests from the US should be treated with hostility by the UK? I’ll be waiting to hear their volte-face on Farage the next time he meets with someone from Trump’s regime or appears on a right wing podcast.

      This guy never should have been allowed into the UK in the first place. A perfect example of an immigrant bringing values incompatible with British society.

    6. shoogliestpeg on

      I’m sure the guy was just Concerned About Immigration, you can’t just go about calling everyone you disagree with a nazi, even if they… (checks notes).. openly espouse neo nazi ideology and love hitler and abuse women.