Information shared with family offers a glimmer of hope in the battle to stop lone wolf attacks

Many lone attackers share information on their plans prior to the attack, which gives hope that their family or friends will tell the authorities, writes Cormac O’Keeffe            

Amid the despair of the last few weeks as to how society can possibly prevent acts of terrorism by lone attackers came some glimmer of light from the MacGill Summer School in Donegal.

A security expert at University College London said research he conducted had found that, in 60% of such cases, the individual had shared information about what he was going to do.