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Britain’s anti-terror watchdog has praised the police for releasing the ethnicity of the suspected Huntingdon train knifeman amid wild speculation on social media.

Jonathan Hall KC, independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said it was an “excellent” decision amid fears that false claims on social media could spark social unrest.

British Transport Police on Sunday named two men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder as a 32-year-old black British national and a 35-year-old British national of Caribbean descent, both born in the UK.

The 35-year-old was later release

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