Extreme measures
Can extremists be de-radicalised? For Assignment, Adrian Goldberg, hears from the \u2018intervention providers\u2019 in the United Kingdom tasked with turning offenders away from violence. Usman Khan was released from prison in 2018 for plotting a terror attack. He\u2019d undertaken two de-radicalisation programmes designed to turn him away from violent extremism. Yet despite efforts to rehabilitate him, Khan launched an attack near London Bridge, in the capital, killing two people \u2013 one of them was Jack Merritt. It was the first of two violent attacks involving convicted extremists in the space of two months. So just how effective are these schemes designed to de-radicalise extremists? We hear from closely people involved in them. Some say offenders can cheat the system and convince the authorities they\u2019ve changed their ways. A serving prisoner in a maximum security jail tells Adrian that convicted terrorists are \u2018gaming\u2019 the system by pretending to comply and he warns that non terrorist offenders are being dangerously radicalised.
Reporter: Adrian Goldberg \nResearcher: Luke Radcliff\nProducer, Helen Clifton \nEditor: Carl Johnston
(Photo: Jack Merritt courtesy of the Merritt family)