MI5 analysing former terror suspects to catch potential attackers

MI5 is under pressure to show it has learned lessons after a series of terrorist attacks in the UK in 2017. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PAMI5 has created a new category to rank terrorist suspects and is increasing the number of behavioural scientists it uses by 50% to improve the agency’s chances of catching former jihadists who re-engage with planning attacks, the Guardian has learned. The moves follow a series of attacks in the UK in 2017, two of which were carried out by former “su