EXCLUSIVE: Bomb suspect facing arrest
By Lucy Panton
ANTI-TERROR cops were stunned when their massive raid on suspect bombers in Forest Gate turned into a chilling child porn probe, we can reveal.
Their week-long search of the house uncovered no explosives or chemical weapons—but officers unearthed a haul of vile kiddie sex pictures on the family's computer.
After forensic investigation they now plan to arrest and quiz 23-year-old Mohammed Abdul Kahar, who was shot in the shoulder during the police swoop on his east London home.
The News of the World can reveal that Scotland Yard has already consulted lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service who have recommended charges be brought.
A CPS source said: "This isn't what officers expected to find when they were searching the computer files.
"The child pornography has been graded ‘high level' and the images are extremely disturbing.
"These are very serious offences and will be treated like any other case of its kind."
The computer was found after 250 officers stormed Kahar's family home in Lansdown Road on June 2 following an MI5 tip-off that there was a deadly cyanide bomb on the premises.
Scuffled
At the time we exclusively revealed how police said Kahar was shot when his 20-year-old brother Abul Koyair scuffled with one of the officers and made a grab for his firearm — which then went off.
The officers involved have now officially detailed this to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Both brothers were arrested in the raid, but they were later released when extensive searches of their house and the property next door revealed no trace of any terror device.
Meanwhile the seized computer was being examined by IT experts and forensic teams.
They found the horrifying collection of kiddie porn pictures which have now been handed over to specialists at Scotland Yard's Child Abuse Investigation Command SCD5.
Last night, when asked about this dramatic new twist, an official Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are not prepared to discuss anyone we may or may not want to interview.
"Whilst there is an ongoing investigation it would be inappropriate to comment on any property seized which continues to be examined by the Metropolitan Police Service."
But a high-level inside legal source revealed: "The files have been closely studied because of the sensitive nature of this inquiry.
"There is strong evidence to support charges."
Officers are expected to question mail worker Kahar in the next few days.
Anti-terror cops are continuing to investigate why the brothers had around £30,000 cash hidden in a bedroom.
During questioning neither would reveal where it came from.
Later in a radio interview one said they had withdrawn the cash as a deposit for a house.
But when their mother was asked why £2,000 cash had been found buried in the garden, she said that it was for a long-planned holiday to Mauritius.
She said they had not used bank accounts for Muslim cultural reasons.
As the inquiries continue and repairs are made to the raided properties, the brothers and the rest of their family are staying at a four-star London hotel — the swish Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury — complete with pool, sauna, spa and Indian restaurant.
And taxpayers are picking up the £30,000-a-month bill.
The family have also issued police with a list of compensation demands including:
# £200 each clothing allowance,
# £10,000 for "contingencies and financial commitments",
# EXTRA cash for a new security system to be installed when they return to their home,
# TAXIS to ferry them to therapy sessions for trauma,
# BOARDING fees for their cat,
# REMOVAL and storage of their belongings, and
# HOTEL expenses for another brother expected to get home leave from prison after serving six years for three armed robberies.
2 comments:
It seems to me that the Police are trying the same trick they used on the Guildford 4, the Birmingham 6 and Colin Stagg (remember him?!?):
"So desperate were the Met to inculpate this loser that they organised a honeytrap of surreal absurdity, in which a young blonde policewoman took the alias of "Lizzie James" and tried to engage Stagg's interest. She met him, made much of him, and then started to write him letters in which she encouraged him to share a secret desire to kill young blonde women. She informed him that she had once killed a child and a baby in a black magic ritual. Was that the kind of thing, wondered "Lizzie James", that turned Stagg on?
The bewildered Stagg tried to cooperate as best he could with this beautiful woman and her appalling fantasies. It may have added to his creative difficulties that he was then still a virgin. After "Lizzie" had sent him a particularly torrid and gory account of killing blonde women, Stagg attempted rather lamely to reply in kind. "I hope that was to your satisfaction, Lizzie," he wrote at the end of one painful composition. "I've written the story on the lines of what I feel you are into."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/06/22/do2201.xml
The trick consists in trying to systematically destroy someone's reputation - their life, in fact - through their friends in the press, partially to save face but mainly out of sheer sadistic revenge.
This site is a great idea btw, a good place to let off steam against the tabloids!
http://rwillmsen.livejournal.com
Kahar has been cleared of all charges due to the poor evidence, which cirumstantially seems to have been planted. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1933657,00.html
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