A 20-year-old man has become the seventh suspect arrested over the Parsons Green terror attack.
The man was apprehended at a ‘halfway house’ for asylum seekers in Cardiff, during a police swoop at 6am today, Scotland Yard said.
He has been taken to a south London police station where he is being quizzed by detectives.
Police stand outside a property in Cardiff, where a 20-year-old man was arrested in relation to the Parsons Green terror attack, this morning
The suspect was apprehended in the Welsh capital, during a swoop at 6am today and is being held a south London police station, Scotland Yard said (pictured, the scene)
The man is the fourth Wales-based suspect to be arrested in relation to the incident, on September 15.
Last week a raid on another half-way house for immigrants and a separate residential property, in Newport, saw three men taken into custody.
Today’s arrest was executed by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command and South Wales Police. Police are also searching another property in Cardiff.
Residents near the home told how the large terraced house in the Roath area of the city, was sealed off when a fleet of police vehicles arrived at 6am.
Barber Joseph Case said: ‘I saw four Jeeps and a few vans pull up and officers get into the house.
‘I saw them bring a guy out – he was in his twenties, dark Middle-Eastern appearance and about 6ft tall in a blue jumper.
A police officer stands outside the raided property in the Roath area of Cardiff this morning
‘I’ve seen him around a lot in the last few months. It is used for asylum seekers and there are groups of maybe 10 to 15 people turning up at the house at a time. A lot of them are wearing Islamic dress.
‘I saw this guy arguing with his landlord about rubbish being dumped outside. He was angry and he shouted: ”Get out of the house.”
Peter Millier, a church officer at the independent Tabernacle Cardiff, which is opposite the house, said he had had contact with a number of residents from the address previously.
He said an asylum seeker from Nicaragua and another from Iran would regularly go to services but that he thought both had since left.
The crude homemade bomb (pictured) failed to fully detonate in the tube carriage at Parsons Green, west London, during the attack on September 15
Counter-terror Police have made arrests in Dover, London, Cardiff and Newport, in south Wales. Pictured, officers outside the home of Ahmed Hassan, 18, in Sunbury, Surrey
Mr Millier said he understood that it was asylum seekers who lived in the house and that he met a third resident, who he believed was from Sudan, about two to three months ago.
He said all of them had been ‘very friendly’.
He said: ‘All these houses down here, or a significant number of them, are used by asylum seekers and also probably people who have been granted asylum.’
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said that four or five people lived in the property.
He said he saw the police take ‘some guys’ away who were ‘probably the new occupants’.
Other neighbours in the Victorian street told how the rented house is used by asylum seekers.
One said: ‘It is very worrying. This is a decent area but a lot of houses have become flats over the years.’
Seven people have been arrested in swoops across Britain, in the 10 days since the attack
So far only one person has been charged in relation to the Parsons Green attack, which injured 30 when a home-made bomb partially detonated on a Tube train in west London.
Three people remain in police custody and three people have been released with no further action.
Ahmed Hassan, 18, from Sunbury in Surrey, was charged with attempted murder and an explosives offence.
He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, where he was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday, 13 October.
He was arrested in Dover, Kent, at around 07:50am, just a day after the attack.
Police apprehended Hassan after spotting him in departures waiting for a ferry to France.
The teen allegedly built the explosive device at his home, where he lives with foster carers Ron and Penelope Jones.
Ahmed Hassan, 18, sketched in the dock when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court
He then got a train from Sunbury-on-Thames to Wimbledon, where he switched and boarded the District line and planted the bomb, the court heard.
Along with the 20-year-old man, a 25-year-old man, and a 30-year-old man also remain in police custody in connection with the investigation.
A 17-year-old male arrested on Thursday, 21 September was released from police custody with no further action on Friday, 22 September.
Two men – aged 48 and 21 – were released from police custody on Thursday, 21 September, with no further action.
Searches are ongoing at one address in Surrey and one address in Cardiff.
Searches at other addresses in Surrey, Hounslow and Newport have all been completed.
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