From the BBC



How do you deradicalise someone?


Parsons Green bomber Ahmed Hassan had been enrolled in a "deradicalisation" program, but still went on to carry out his attack

"Hassan had carried out the attack with “ruthless determination and almost military efficiency”, said the judge. “There is no doubt in my mind that you are a very dangerous and devious individual.”

More than 50 people were injured when a fireball swept through the carriage, burning passengers’ skin, hair and clothing, or suffered crush injuries as people fell over each other while trying to escape."

Nikita Malik, who heads up the Centre on Radicalisation and Terrorism at the Henry Jackson Society, has carried out research into women who have joined IS and then returned home with their children.

She said: "Unfortunately, even the deradicalisation programme we have for returnees - which is a Desistance and Disengagement programme - incentivises people in it to lie because the notes are shared with the judges who then determine how often they can see their child."

Shamima Begum names her son Jarrah, which means 'able fighter'

Historian Tom Holland asks why, if the teen wants to 'return to Britain in peace', her newborn's name honours a general famous for 'beating infidels'