More terrorist arrests in London

Anti-terror police arrest three teenage women following raids in northwest London last week that saw a woman shot

• Raids last week saw six arrested and a woman shot in north-west London
• Now a further three women have been arrested in the east of the capital
• The suspects - two of whom are aged 18 and one 19 - are being questioned
• Police confirm the arrests are linked to the 'active plot' probe last week
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•  Police have arrested three women - two aged just 18 - as part of bid to stop an 'active terror plot'.
  The trio were arrested in east London following dramatic raids in the north-west of the capital last week.

  The suspects, two aged 18 and one aged 19, were held after raids by Scotland Yard's Counter-Terrorism Command in east London today.

  

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  Three more women have been arrested as part of an anti-terror probe which saw six others arrested in the north west of the capital last week

  The Met said the arrested women are connected to the raid in Willesden in which a woman was shot by armed officers.

  A spokesman said: 'Officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command have this morning, Monday, 1 May, carried warrants at three addresses in east London.

  'Three woman aged 18, 18 and 19 have been arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000

  'They are currently in custody at a police station outside of London.

  'The arrests were made as part of an ongoing intelligence-led operation in connection with an address on Harlesden Road.'

  The latest arrests bring the total linked to the Harlesden Road operation, in which police believe they foiled an active terror plot, to 10.

  

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  The latest arrests are linked to a raid in which anti-terror police shot a woman last Thursday

  Gun shots heard during police operation on house in Willesden

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  Elite armed officers carried out a 'specialist entry' into the terraced property shortly before 7pm on Thursday night.

  Police fired CS gas into the address, which had been under observation as part of a current counter-terrorism operation.

  The 21-year-old woman shot by police was discharged from hospital on Sunday following treatment before being taken in for questioning.

  The young woman – yesterday wrongly reported in one newspaper to have been pregnant – was believed to be unarmed when a team of balaclava-wearing armed police opened fire, shooting her at least once during the raid when she reportedly defied their instructions to ‘freeze’.

  Bleeding heavily, the 21-year-old described as a white English woman wearing a burka, was dragged screaming into the street following the shooting at 7pm, shouting: ‘Don’t touch my body’. 

  

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  Five shots were heard as police raided the terraced house in Willesden last week

  A total of six people were also arrested in connection with the swoop, including five at or near the address in north London and one in Kent.

  Aged between 16 and 43 they were all arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts and taken to a south London police station for questioning.

  

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  Mohamed Amoudi, 21, was one of the six people held by armed police last Thursday

  One has been named in reports as Mohamed Amoudi, a Yemeni-born British citizen who studied physics at Queen Mary University in east London.

  Neighbours said Amoudi had been involved in a number of disputes with neighbours since returning from Turkey in 2015 when he was arrested with two 17-year-old boys believed to be travelling to Syria to join IS fighters.

  Scotland Yard said warrants of further detention were granted at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday, allowing the six to be questioned until dates between May 2 and May 4. 

  Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu confirmed after Thursday's raid that an active terror plot had been foiled.

  The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been informed of the incident, as is routine with police shootings, along with the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards.