Ian Cherrington

And those sorts of behaviors are normally very close to the end, if you like, if they're going to go ahead.

So it's really important to sort of think about why they might be saying those things.

It might seem strange in the moment, but if you consider everything I've said, and you have all those ingredients in one place, then that's when people should come forward and say, this is what's happening.

There's a truth to it that people do, you know, working in the police, people make threats, say things that they never are going to do or never do anything about.

They do that.

That is a thing.

These are so huge, the devastation, the impact they have on people.

In the context I've given, I think if someone says that they're intending to do an attack like this, personally, I think every single one of those comments matters.

should be reported because it might not be every time, but they really meant it.

But at the end of the day, that's in their head.

And often the ones that are successful, it's a strange word to use, but they, they often do that.

And it's, and you can see it, you can see it in the cases afterwards, you know, but it's too late then, right?

It's, it's happened.

And,

Lots of people have been killed.

So if someone is saying that they intend to do something of this nature, personally, I think that's the biggest warning sign for me.

It might not be true every time, but it only needs to be true once, right?

Yeah, I mean, it does happen, yes.

To be fair, sometimes it's subtle and they wouldn't necessarily understand what I'm talking about.

They wouldn't piece that together.