A mother thought to have been planning to travel to Syria with her four children has been arrested after returning to the UK.
Zahera Tariq, 33, was detained in Turkey on Tuesday along with her sons Muhammad, 12, Amaar, 11, Aadid, four and daughter Safiyyah, nine.
The Metropolitan police’s counter-terrorism command placed her under arrest on suspicion of child abduction after she arrived to Luton airport on a flight from Istanbul on Thursday night.
Tariq and her family were reported missing from their home in Walthamstow, east London, last week. Her children were reported to be safe and well earlier this week , and have been taken into police protection following their arrival to the UK.
They were found to have flown to Amsterdam on 25 August after CCTV footage showed captured them passing through London City airport.
A Metropolitan police spokesman said their inquiries into the case continued. Scotland Yard said recently it believed that more than 40 women and girls had travelled from Britain to Syria in the past year.
