UK Police said that two teens who are accused of committing extreme right-wing terror acts will appear in court in London on Friday and will be charged with “very serious offences.”
The Counter Terrorism Command branch of the Metropolitan Police (the Met) said on Thursday that two individuals, one aged 19 and the other 18 years old, had been charged as a result of a “proactive investigation.”
Rex William Henry Clark, an east London resident, was accused of planning terrorist activities in violation of the Terrorism Act of 2006.
Two charges of gathering information likely to be helpful to someone performing or planning a terrorist attack were brought against Sofija Vinogradova of Cheshunt, north of London, by the police.
They will both appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, while they are both being held. The inquiry, according to the police, “is related to suspected extreme right-wing terrorist activity.”
Head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command Commander Dominic Murphy stated, “These are extremely serious charges, but I would urge the public to speculate about this case any further at this time and allow the criminal justice process to run its course unimpeded.”
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“Although our investigation is still ongoing, I want to reassure the public that we do not currently believe that there is a wider threat related to this investigation,” he said.
The stabbing deaths of three girls at a dance class in Southport, northwest England, have sparked far-right protests across England and Northern Ireland.
According to Murphy, the probe was not prompted “by the chaos that followed the horrific events in Southport across the nation.” On August 4, the lady was first taken into custody by police on suspicion of having a gun.
On August 10, after being granted bail, she was taken into custody once again. The 18-year-old guy was apprehended at the same house as well, and they were both brought to a police station in London.
