Returning jihadis threatening UK

MORE than 3000 jihadis are in the UK – stretching the country’s security services to breaking point.

Spies and counter- terror police are struggling to monitor a flood of suspects, mainly radicalised men and women in their teens and early 20s.

About 850 Britons are thought to have gone abroad to fight with so- called Islamic State as they took control of territory in Syria and Iraq.

But with the terror group being pushed out, extremists with British passports are fleeing back to the UK where authorities fear they may unleash a new wave of attacks.

Although more than 100 have been killed, around half have returned home with battle experience and training in the use of explosives and firearms.

The security services have also foiled at least 13 planned attacks in the past four years, Britain’s most senior counterterrorism officer, Acting Deputy Met Commissioner Mark Rowley, has revealed.