Urban Exploration: From Subterranea to Spectacle

Terrorism Task Force'. A presentation given the following year by Transport for London's then head of crime prevention, John Strutton describes UE as a developing "threat", likening images and accounts of trespass to 'readymade 'hostile reconnaissance' documents', and alluding to 'links with domestic extremist groups'. He also mentions that SO15, the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, 'consider UrbEx a genuine risk'. Most recently, in 2014, eleven members of the London Consolidation Crew (LCC), a UE collective, were tried on charges brought by the British Transport Police, including conspiracy to commit criminal damage -a charge that carries a maximum prison sentence of ten years -following the group's infiltration of disused sections of the London Underground network (see