Anti-extremism chief in call for wider Prevent focus after attack

By Dan Peters | 29 March 2017

The chair of the London Prevent Board has suggested the focus of the programme should be widened in the wake of the Westminster terror attack.

Waltham Forest LBC chief executive Martin Esom, who was part of the gold command response to the atrocity last week, told The MJ the Government’s anti-extremist Prevent programme would need to respond to the fact that 52-year-old Khalid Masood was older than previous perpetrators.

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