OPINION: The trial and sentencing of Axel Rudakubana for the fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport in 2024 has once again ignited a debate about what constitutes terrorism in the UK; Dr Alan Greene, Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, argues that widening the already broad legal definition of terrorism would confuse the law and increase the existing heavy reliance on the discretion of the police, courts and government as to which incidents are deemed terrorist in nature.