Inside gangs: Why are children killing each other?

Palestine Action – the extreme activist group that infiltrates and vandalises military sites and defence firms - is to become a banned terrorist organisation. But very little is known about its members or supporters.The Crime Agents host and LBC crime correspondent Andy Hughes went along to meet them as they protested outside Downing Street on the day MPs voted to proscribe Palestine Action. He spoke exclusively to former Labour MP Zarah Sultana, who this week quit to form her own party with Jeremy Corbyn.Andy and co-host Neil Basu, ex-head of UK Counter Terror Policing, debate whether members of Palestine Action deserve to be classed as terrorists.Andy and Neil also take your questions in this bonus Q&A episode.

In this week’s episode of The Crime Agents, investigative journalist Andy Hughes reveals the inner workings of Britain’s most violent street gangs.He’s joined by his co-host Neil Basu, ex Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police. He describes how it felt to come face to face with the criminal underworld.Andy and Neil explore why the children being recruited by gangs are getting younger, and why kids as young as nine are willing to kill. 

In the very first episode of The Crime Agents, investigative journalist Andy Hughes reveals exclusively how hundreds of convicted terrorists have been released from UK jails over the past two decades, and are now living among us, many of whom continue to refuse deradicalisation treatment.His co-host on the Crime Agents is the former Head of Counter Terrorism for the Metropolitan Police, Neil Basu. In this episode Neil explains how law enforcement go about catching terrorists, how terror plots are thwarted, and why there are now so many convicted terrorists no longer in jail.

In the first bonus episode of The Crime Agents, Andy takes us inside the high-stakes hunt for convicted terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah, and reveals what happened behind the scenes when they came face to face.Meanwhile, Neil explains some of the surveillance tactics police use to keep tabs on terror suspects. Plus - the pair are joined for an exclusive interview by Richard Smith, the UK's Senior National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism Policing, who reacts to Andy's story that hundreds of convicted extremists are back on Britain's streets after being freed from prison.For more content, follow us on social media: @thecrimeagents And get in touch via email: [email protected]

As the twenty year anniversary of the 7/7 attacks in London approaches, Andy Hughes reveals the shocking number of convicted terrorists who have been released from prison in the last two decades. Incredibly, hundreds of these criminals refused to take part in deradicalisation schemes while serving their sentences - and were considered unsafe for release by the authorities.Neil Basu explains whether the UK's terror sentencing system is fit for purpose, and in a major Crime Agents exclusive, Andy tracks down and confronts a notorious terrorist. You won't want to miss what happens next.Plus - Neil warns that the terror threat level in the UK could be increased if the war between Israel and Iran continues, and tensions rise even higher in the Middle East, and he reacts to the news that the government is considering proscribing the controversial protest group Palestine Action.For more content, follow us on social media: @thecrimeagents And get in touch via email: [email protected]