British security services “moved too slowly” over the Manchester suicide bomber and failed to track a potentially dangerous Islamist, a report by MPs has said.
An illegal migrant from Iraq was set to be given the all-clear by the government’s deradicalisation programme shortly before he planted a bomb on a London tube at Parsons Green.
LONDON (AFP) – An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker on Friday received a life sentence with a minimum 34-year jail term over the botched bombing of a rush-hour London Underground train that injured 30 people.
LONDON (AP) — A teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker who told police he had been trained by the Islamic State group was convicted of attempted murder on Friday for planting a home-made bomb on a London subway train.
An Iraqi asylum seeker, who illegally entered the UK in the back of a lorry when he was 16, packed a bomb with knives, nails, and bolts to cause “maximum harm and carnage”, a court has heard.
The BBC has deleted a social media post describing an Iraqi asylum seeker accused of terror offenses as a “Surrey teenager.”
LONDON (AP) — An 18-year-old has denied responsibility for an explosion on a London subway station that injured 30 people in September.
The Parsons Green bucket bomb had a “large quantity of explosive” and was “packed with shrapnel”, Metropolitan Police Chief Cressida Dick has revealed.
Detectives investigating Friday’s Parsons Green terrorist attack have arrested a third man in Wales on Tuesday night.
A Syrian refugee arrested in connection with the Parsons Green bombing is a “good guy” who “likes to smoke, meet girls, and go to clubs,” his cousin has claimed.
The 18-year-old Iraqi refugee suspected of planting the Parsons Green ‘bucket bomb’ was reported to the government’s Prevent de-radicalisation scheme just months ago, it has been claimed.
The foster couple who cared for the Syrian ‘refugees’ arrested in connection with the Parsons Green bombing were not warned of the men’s troubled past, friends have claimed.
The resident of a second property being searched in relation to the Parsons Green terrorist attack has links to elderly foster carers whose home was raided Saturday, media sources claim.
LONDON (AP) — The British government lowered the country’s official terrorist threat level Sunday after a second man was arrested in connection with the attack on a London subway train where a bomb partially exploded.
The alleged “refugee” teenager held in connection with Friday’s terror attack in London was arrested just two weeks before the attack, neighbours who knew his foster family have claimed.
A second man has been arrested in connection to the Parsons Green terrorist attack, Metropolitan Police have confirmed.
The house raided in Surrey in connection with Friday’s terror attack at Parsons Green is owned by a couple who foster child refugees, with one recent foster charge being described as a problematic “foreign” 18-year-old, according to media reports.
Islamic State’s news agency Amaq has said the terror group has taken responsibility for the bombing on a Parsons Green underground train.
