Home Secretary Priti Patel has downgraded in the UK’s national terrorism level.
In a written statement to Parliament, Priti Patel announced the level that has been reduced from 'severe' to 'substantial'.
This means an attack is likely, instead of highly likely.
The severe rating risk was classified by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in October and November last year.
As reported in the Daily Mirror, Mrs Patel said: "JTAC judges that, despite these two attacks, the current nature and scale of the UK terrorist threat is consistent with the level of threat seen prior to the attacks.
"The attacks in October and November 2021 reflect the complex, volatile, and unpredictable nature of the terrorist threat in the UK."
It was the Liverpool hospital bombing in November that saw the UK raise its terror level threat.
Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died when his ball bearing-loaded device exploded in a taxi outside the city’s Women’s Hospital.
The terrorist arrived from Iraq travelling on a Jordanian passport in April 2014. He claimed asylum after protesting he was a Syrian refugee, however the Home Office dismissed his claim the following November.
In December an inquest was told Al Swealmeen had informed his brother of his intention to do “something bad” before the explosion on Remembrance Sunday.
The hearing was told Al Swealmeen booked a cab from a Sefton Park flat where he had created the bomb. Giving instructions to David Perry the driver, Al Swealmeen said: “Women’s Hospital”.
When the taxi pulled up outside the hospital just before 11am on November 14, the bomb exploded.
The hospital’s CCTV captured shocking footage showing the front windscreen flying 16 metres in the air where it shattered against a tree.
A shocked Mr Perry, 45, said the impact felt like a wagon smashing into the back of his cab. He was blacked out but quickly regained consciousness as he somehow managed to run out of the car that was alight.
Suffering three fractures to the bottom of his back and damaged eardrums, Mr Perry told a security guard: “The b * d tried to bomb me.”
The inquest was told that a Koran and prayer mat had been found in Al Swealmeen’s possessions.
Coroner Andre Rebello said: “It was fairly evident that he carried out the religious duties of someone who is a follower of Islam.
“This device could have only been manufactured with murderous intent. Fortunately there was only one victim.”
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