Submitting.
Friel was accused of preparing to commit acts of terrorism by researching spree killing mass murderers online, particularly those connected to the incel subculture - but a jury found this allegation not proven. Pic: Police Scotland/Shutterstock
He was found guilty of possessing weapons for a purpose suspected to be in connection with an act of terrorism.
Mr Wilson said: This isn t sophisticated but the problem is the volume of people who might be flirting with this kind of scene. There s been plenty of sexist, violent men since the dawn of history but the sense of this being a public movement could not exist without the rise of social media and the internet.
Incel subculture: What is it and how did it develop?
PA
– What is an incel?
The incel subculture of self-professed involuntary celibates is a “deeply sexist and misogynistic” development of age-old sexism that has been given a boost with the rise of internet communities, according to a University of St Andrews expert.
Tim Wilson, director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, spoke to the PA news agency after the conviction of Gabrielle Friel on a terrorism charge at the following a five-day trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
A man who sympathised wth the mysoginist incel subculture has been found guilty under the Terrorism Act of possessing weapons including a crossbow and machete. Gabrielle Friel, 22, fantasised about spree killings and was said to sympathise with the misogynist incel subculture which has taken root among disaffected young men around the globe. Meaning involuntary celibate , the term has been spread across the internet and taken up by those who feel frozen out by the opposite sex and by the world at large. It took a deadly new meaning in 2014 following the murderous rampage of Californian Elliot Rodger, who killed six people before turning his weapon on himself.