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British Detective arrives in Australia to interview Doctor
SENIOR Scotland Yard counter-terrorism investigator has arrived in Brisbane to question an Indian doctor detained over the foiled UK bomb plot. The chief inspector from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Unit will assist Australian Federal Police (AFP) in quizzing 27-year-old Indian national Mohammed Haneef about the foiled attacks in London and Glasgow.But the senior British officer and AFP are on a tight deadline, having a court order to detain Dr Haneef without charge only until late tonight. The unnamed officer this morning evaded a media scrum at Brisbane International Airport. An AFP spokesman said British authorities had asked for the officer's privacy to be respected. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said from London they preferred the officer's identity not to be revealed in the media, but confirmed the officer left yesterday on a flight to Australia. Dr Haneef, who has been working as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital, is one of six doctors arrested in connection with the plot and the only person detained outside Britain. British health authorities have confirmed he worked part-time in 2005 at the same hospital in north-western England as another arrested doctor. A second doctor from the Gold Coast Hospital, Dr Mohammed Asif Ali, has been cleared after questioning. Posted by: Oztralian 2007-07-05 |
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