Police detention officer guilty of terror offence

A police detention officer has been convicted of a terror offence after he published images showing his apparent support of a Northern Ireland paramilitary group.

William Lloyd-hughes, 26, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty at Westminster magistrates’ court in London to publishing an image of two flags on Sept 11 last year that would “arouse reasonable suspicion that you were a member or supporter of ” the banned loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA) terror group.

Lloyd-hughes, who was based at Huddersfield Police Station, will be sentenced on April 19.