The judge banned the teenager from travelling abroad last year after a hearing in the family division of the High Court Dan Kitwood/GettyA senior judge yesterday highlighted the “extraordinary level” of state intervention that stopped a teenage boy travelling abroad because of fears that he wanted to fight in Syria. Mr Justice Hayden said that huge resources had been deployed in the case and revealed that he had questioned whether such activity was proportionate. He told the High Court that he was often asked why so much “time, money and effort” was spent in preventing young extremists from joining terror groups in the Middle East and “why not just let them go?”The judge said: “And I myself have wondered whether that…

Source: The Times October 05, 2016 23:03 UTC