‘KILLING SPREE A TERROR ATTACK'

As ‘incel’ army of 10,000 praise sick shooter experts insist that he’s a terrorist | WHAT NOW AFTER MASS KILLING? | FEARS THAT ARMY OF 10,000 FRUSTRATED BRITONS HAVE BEEN RADICALIZED ONLINE

- Tony Whitfield

THE EXTREMIST women-hating “incel” community should be treated like terrorists, say experts, as it emerged Plymouth shooter Jake Davison is being celebrated by the twisted group.

A senior legal figure said the killer, who shot dead five people on Thursday, including a father and his adopted daughter, should have been on a watchlist. Former top prosecutor Nazir Afzal warned that extreme misogyny and the online “incel” community – “involuntary celibate” men who believe women do not find them attractive – have become a genuine threat.

He warned that there are 10,000 people with incel views like Davison in the country and more are becoming radicalised online.

Other experts agreed that incel is becoming a growing threat.

It came as twisted “fans” saluted Davison as a “supreme gentleman”, a “new hero” and urged him to “shoot for the stars” after he murdered five people then shot himself.

In the 12-minute rampage in Keyham, the bodybuilder used a pump-action shotgun to kill his mother Maxine, 51, Sophie Martyn, three, and her father Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66.

Before the murder spree Davison, 23, had called himself a “fat, ugly virgin” and showed affinity to the incel group.

In one YouTube rant, he said: “I used to be OK with being a virgin but when you get older the inferiority complex kicks in and the feeling of despair and missing out occurs.

“Try being an unemployed, autistic, poor, sexually frustrated male with tons of health issues, no social circle and being stuck in government housing with my mother for years on end.”