The Mail on Sunday

Online... vile ISIS stabbing tutorial

- By Ian Gallagher

A DEPRAVED guide to stabbing police and military personnel was disseminat­ed by Islamic State three months ago – and is still available on the internet.

It was issued to potential ‘lone wolf’ terrorists by the terror group’s recruiters based in Syria, and could well have been seen by Khalid Masood in the weeks before he planned his attack. Sickeningl­y, the image offers detailed instructio­ns for where to stab someone if they are wearing body armour. Scotland Yard revealed last night that PC Keith Palmer was wearing a protective vest at the time of the attack.

It declined to go into any detail about his wounds, or confirm the ‘provisiona­l cause of death’, but said a pathologis­t could find ‘no obvious evidence of damage or penetratio­n’ to the vest.

The video originally appeared on the Telegram messaging service, increasing­ly favoured by extremist groups. Initially, it was available to 250 private members, many of whom are IS recruiters, who then spread it on social media, where it has

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EVIL LESSON: We have pixellated key parts of the video

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