The teenage Parsons Green suspect arrested at the Port of Dover after the attack will appear in court today accused of trying to unleash murder on the Tube.
Ahmed Hassan, 18, has been charged in connection with the Parsons Green Tube terrorist attack, Scotland Yard said.
The teenager will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court this afternoon.
Hassan is accused of attempting to murder people travelling on a District Line train in last Friday’s bombing, Scotland Yard said.
He also face a charge of using a chemical compound known as TATP to cause an explosion likely to endanger life.
Ahmed Hassan, 18, has been charged in connection with the Parsons Green Tube terrorist attack (pictured) , Scotland Yard said
A Syrian refugee arrested over the Parsons Green Tube terror attack was last night released without charge.
Scotland Yard said the student would face no further action – six days after his arrest outside the fried chicken takeaway where he worked in West London.
The family of Yahyah Farroukh, 21, had denied his involvement in the attempted London Underground bombing, insisting he ‘loved’ Britain.
After his arrest on Saturday, his sister said: ‘Yahyah is innocent, we know he is. He could never hurt a fly. Why would he hurt the family that adopted him or the country that welcomed him?’
Meanwhile, a 17-year-old boy living in a ‘halfway house’ for asylum seekers and ‘troubled’ teenagers yesterday became the sixth suspect to be held over last Friday’s potentially catastrophic bombing.
He was arrested in a midnight raid on a property in Thornton Heath, South London.
Counter-terror police were last night still holding an 18-year-old man arrested at the Port of Dover the day after the failed attack.
The refugee, understood to be the suspected bomber, is believed, along with Mr Farroukh, to have spent time in foster care with Penelope and Ronald Jones, aged 71 and 88 respectively, who previously received MBEs for services to children and families.
The investigation into the rush hour bombing, which injured 30 people, has also seen three men aged 25, 30 and 48, detained in Newport, South Wales.
The 17-year-old suspect was held yesterday after around 20 police officers stormed the end-of-terrace house shortly after midnight on Wednesday.
Forensic officers spent the day searching the five-bedroom property. Wheelie bins were emptied and searched, while the overgrown back garden combed for clues.
Police have since made arrests in Dover, London and Newport, south Wales. They are searching a number of properties, including the home of a foster couple who took in an Iraqi 18-year-old at the centre of the investigation
In the week since the attack, six people have been picked up by police across Britain
Neighbour Pamela Emanuel, 54, said police visit the house frequently – ‘at least every other week’ – and that the current group of ‘young foreign teenagers’ have lived there for no more than six months.
She said she believed the house, thought to be worth around £500,000, was used for people with a question mark over their immigration status, and described the group as ‘unsupervised’.
The latest arrest came as searches continued at two addresses in Newport, while police said ongoing searches of houses in Sunbury-on-Thames and Stanwell in Surrey are expected to ‘last some days’.
Commander Dean Haydon, head of Scotland Yard’s Counter-Terrorism Command, said: ‘This continues to be a fast-moving investigation. A significant amount of activity has taken place since the attack on Friday.’
Meanwhile friends of the third man arrested over the Parsons Green bombing said they ‘can’t believe’ he would be involved.
The 25-year-old, named locally as Bilal, was arrested in Glebe Street, Newport, South Wales, at 7pm on Tuesday.
One friend said the Iranian Kurd arrived in Newport in around 2009, adding: ‘He is a very good guy, I can’t believe this. He is Kurdish, he describes terrorists like Isis as stupid.’
Neighbours of two of the houses raided say they were used as temporary accommodation. Police remain at the scene of a house in south London where a 17-year-old was detained
Part-time model Sully Ali, 19, said he saw the painter and decorator being arrested, adding: ‘He smiled at me from the back of the police car.’
The home-made bomb which injured 30 when it partially detonated at Parsons Green last week contained a ‘large quantity of explosive’ and was ‘packed with shrapnel’, the head of Scotland Yard has revealed.
Cressida Dick, the Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, said the device left on the tube train was ‘very, very dangerous’ and the carnage ‘could have been so much worse’.
She also revealed that, as well as the five terror attacks which have taken place in the UK this year, police have foiled six further attacks in the last few months.
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