The head of counter-terrorism, assistant commissioner Matt Jukes, said: “It is clear from the Prevent learning review where the management and handling of Ali Harbi Ali’s case in 2014 should have been better.
Announcing the review, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, told the Commons: “The reviewer found that from the material reviewed, the assessment in terms of the perpetrator’s vulnerabilities was problematic, and this ultimately led to questionable decision-making and sub-optimal handling of the case during the time he was engaged with Prevent and Channel.
This review into Prevent’s handling of the Ali case followed a critical report last week into its handling of the Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana.
The Prevent scheme made a series of errors in its handling of the man who went on to murder the Conservative MP David Amess, a review has found.
Anti-radicalisation scheme found to have made series of errors in case of Ali Harbi Ali, who went on to murder MP.
