Channel Project under fire after conviction of Britain youngest terrorist - Telegraph.co.uk

The Government is considering plans to force jihadists returning from Syria to go through counter-radicalisation programmes as a condition of being allowed back in the UK. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted inciting... The fact someone so young almost successfully organised what would have been a horrific terrorist attack has sent shock waves through the police and security services. In March 2015 he was arrested by counter-terrorism police as part of an ongoing investigation and then rearrested the following month when officers uncovered the Australia plot. He is the second convicted terrorist this year where counter-extremism programmes did not work. In February, 19-year-old Brusthom Ziamani was found guilty of plotting to behead a British soldier in an echo of the brutal murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Ziamani was arrested in an east London street last August carrying a black flag, a 12in (30cm) knife and a hammer in a rucksack, having earlier researched the location of Army cadet bases in the south east of the. Source: www.telegraph.co.uk