MI5 investigated Texas synagogue hostage-taker in 2020

UK intelligence officers concluded Malik Faisal Akram posed no threat, which allowed him to travel to US and buy gunThe British man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue had been under investigation by MI5 as a possible Islamist terrorist threat as recently as 2020, Whitehall sources acknowledged on Tuesday morning.British intelligence closed the investigation, however, after officers had concluded Malik Faisal Akram from Blackburn posed no threat, and as a result he was able to freely travel t