An online ‘wild west’ is radicalising children to carry out nihilistic violence and mass casualty attacks, the Southport Inquiry heard on Tuesday.
Psychologists are attempting to understand a ‘new set of motivations for violence’, promoted to teenagers under the age of 15 via pro-anorexia, self-harm, or so-called ‘gore’ communities on the Internet.
The second stage of the public inquiry, set up in the wake of the murders of three young girls in the Merseyside seaside town, in July 2024, is focusing on ‘violence fixated individuals’ – people not driven by ideology but who seek to terrorise society by causing widespread harm.
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