Children make up nearly 70% of referrals over extreme violence obsession, shock figures reveal

MOST referrals to the Government’s anti-terror scheme for an obsession with extreme violence are for children, figures show. Rising numbers of kids are now fascinated by bloodshed and mass-casualty attacks. Home Office data shows 566 of the 818 referrals to Prevent for violent obsessions in England and Wales involved under-18s, equivalent to almost 70 per...