Armed police have made a further three arrests in east London in connection with the London Bridge terror attack. At about 10pm on Wednesday officers from the Met’s counter-terrorism command, along with firearms officers, arrested two men on a street in Ilford, east London, while a third was arrested after a warrant was carried out at a home in Ilford.
Of the two arrested on the street, a 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts, as was the 29-year-old man arrested at the residential address in Ilford.
The 33-year-old man also arrested on the street was held on drugs charges. All three men are being detained at a south London police station. Searches of the residential address in Ilford and a business address in Ilford are continuing.
The latest arrests follow police action on Sunday morning, when seven women and five men from at least two addresses in and around Barking, east London, were arreste, while a 30-year-old man was detained after detectives raided an address in Ilford in the early hours of Wednesday.
