Malik Faisal Akram, 44, had also been investigated by MI5 in 2020. However the father-of-six, who was shot dead by FBI SWAT teams while holding up a Texas synagogue, was not considered a threat.
Ian Acheson, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, said the narrative that the far-right is the fastest growing threat is a comfort blanket obscuring a patently more potent threat .