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05:28 EDT, 24 December 2020 41 shares Prosecutors argued on Friday that autism spectrum disorder cannot be used as a legal defense in the mass murder trial of a Toronto man. Alek Minassian is on trial for the deaths of 10 people on April 23, 2018, when Minassian ran over 10 people with his van. Minassian has confessed to the crime, so the facts of the mass murder are not in dispute. What is in dispute, according to ABC News, is whether Minassian's diagnosed autism spectrum disorder was enough of a factor to cloud his judgment on the day of the mass murder. This is the van Alek Minassian us...

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...

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 Ca...