UK police foil seven ‘late-stage’ terror attacks since start of pandemic

Since March 2017, there had been 18 disrupted plots related to Islamist extremism, police said (Peter Byrne/PA)

Police in the UK have disrupted seven “late-stage” terror attacks since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

The latest figures take the total number of foiled terrorism plots in the UK in the last four years to 32, Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) said.