Ian Cherrington

Whereas what I'm trying to say is that for those cases where that's happened, it's an opportunity missed, really.

For someone to say, there's this person online and they're talking about doing something.

Obviously, sometimes people have bravado, don't they?

They just say stuff.

I think if they say explicitly that they're going to carry out violence or an attack, and it does happen more than you would think, because it's better safe than sorry in those situations.

Often they just say it.

People just say things, particularly online, where it's this idea of...

keyboard warrior, people just say things that they don't mean.

But it happens enough that I would say, if you saw that, you should be concerned.

And obviously that person online might not be who they say they are.

They might have a tag or a name that isn't them.

But even so, I think it's concerning.

And we'll talk a little bit about why.

So the other side of this is, as you get quite close to carrying out an attack, a person like this,

they might start mentally preparing and this kind of comes in different ways but unlike a in a good example is a serial killer where perhaps the whole purpose of what they're doing is to stay secret and get away with it and carry on doing it this as i said at the start is like a blaze of glory it's their final moments but they know that they're gonna either die or go to prison you know they don't expect to survive one way or the other or continue their life as it is

If they're successful in what they're planning.

And what's apparent is that that starts to dawn on them, the magnitude of it.

It starts to affect them.

And sometimes you'll see them behaving erratically.

So they might, at those stages, late stages, start to kind of reach out to friends, family or agencies.