Revision History

On April 29, 2026, Essa Suleiman, a 45-year-old British national with a history of serious violence, stabbed two Jewish men in London's Golders Green neighbourhood in an attack declared a terrorist incident by the Metropolitan Police. The case — which led to the UK raising its national terror threat level to "severe" and announcing £25 million in new Jewish community security funding — has triggered scrutiny of the government's Prevent counter-extremism programme after it emerged that Suleiman had been referred to Prevent in 2020 but had his case closed the same year.