Wearing a tweed jacket, rimmed glasses and carrying a briefcase, it looked as though Oliver Bel was on his way to a university lecture rather than a crown court.
But it was at one of the country's most prestigious centres of learning - Cambridge University - that the dark, hate filled and dangerous world in which Bel had secretly immersed himself was first revealed to police.
In an extraordinary fall from grace, Bel, 24, from Salford, is now beginning a jail sentence for a terrorism offence. And, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic is helping to create a 'perfect storm' for radicalisation, especially among young people, a senior counter terrorism officer has told the M.E.N.
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