Counter-terror chief reveals ‘real threat’ of school terror plots

Police stopped eight late-stage terror plots' in the past year

Officers have been forced to step in and stop the real threat" of teenagers plotting US-style attacks on schools, the head of counter-terrorism policing has revealed.

Matt Jukes said there are growing numbers of reports of children fixated on coverage of mass shootings, with more young men - and boys as young as 13 - coming to police attention as potential terrorist threats of all kinds.