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| "Teenager" bought plane ticket for fleeing terror suspect |
| 2014-04-05 |
| A teenager was arrested yesterday on suspicion of buying a plane ticket for the terror suspect who fled his watchers by wearing a burka. The 17-year-old Mohamed, 27, disappeared from a west London mosque in November last year after changing in to the womanâs Islamic clothing. He was under a Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measure (Tpim) at the time because he is suspected of having links with alâShabaab, the Somali terror group. He is believed to have been involved with a UK â based terror network of six British nationals who were trained by al â Qaeda and helped recruit and fund jihadists to go to Somalia. The group has links with extremists associates in East Africa. The Home Office suspects Mohamed, who is a British citizen born in Somalia, of having being trained by and fought with al â Shabaab and to have been involved in planning attacks against Western interests overseas. It emerged Mohamed had been allowed to remain on the streets despite being remanded in custody three times for suspected breaches of his Tpim. He was most recently granted bail in August last year, three months before he vanished, following allegations that he had tampered with his electronic monitoring tag. The 17-year-old, who was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Policeâs Counter Terrorism Command at 7am and was taken to a south London police station for questioning. A trial of Mohamed for an alleged breach of his TPIM, which was due to start on April 28, was vacated at the Old Bailey on Friday. The court was told Mohamed had âleft the jurisdictionâ. |
| Posted by:Steve White |