[Steve]

A terror suspect arrested after a car crashed into a barrier at the Houses of Parliament at high speed is not believed to be known to the security services, police have said.

At least three people were injured when the silver Ford Fiesta hit a group of cyclists and pedestrians waiting for traffic lights to change. Rooftop camera footage shows the car mounting a pavement on the wrong side of the road before, witnesses said, it travelled at up to 50mph for around 40 metres (130ft) and hit a bollard.

Westminster was in lockdown as armed police swarmed the scene on Tuesday morning. One witness said: "It looked intentional - the car drove at speed and towards the barriers."

Scotland Yard said a man in his late 20s was arrested after the incident at around 7.30am. The suspect was taken to a south London police station, where he remains on suspicion of terrorism offences. He is not co-operating with officers.

The Met's counter-terrorism command is leading the investigation. Officers are seeking to formally identify the suspect, but "don't believe this person is known to either MI5 or counter terrorism police".

Images showed a man being led away in handcuffs after armed police surrounded the eight-year-old car.

No one else was in the car and police said no weapons had been recovered from the scene.

Speaking outside New Scotland Yard, Neil Basu, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner for counter-terrorism, said police and the intelligence services were working to establish if the suspect was part of a wider terror cell and if he had received assistance from others in planning the attack.

Mr Basu said: “It appears to have been a deliberate act, but what the motive was we can’t answer at the moment. We haven’t formally identified the suspect, but we don’t believe he’s known to MI5.”

He added the attacker was not been pursued by police before he struck the entrance to the Palace of Westminster and that the blue lights seen behind him in footage of the incident were those of an ambulance coincidentally answering a separate emergency call.

Witness Barry Williams said the car had accelerated towards the barrier after hitting the cyclists.

"I turned round to see a silver car heading towards the cyclists on the wrong side of the road, they were parked waiting for the lights to change," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. "He hit the cyclists then swerved over towards where the safety barrier is.... and accelerated and hit it at quite a high speed.

"I wasn't sure whether he meant to hit the cyclists, they might have just been in the way, but once he did, he accelerated towards the barrier.

He added: "The police were very fast, they vaulted over the safety barrier and headed towards the car.

"What also happened was the police started to head away to block off people heading towards us. The cyclists...there was a few on the ground, some were holding their arms, there was bikes everywhere. It was frightening."

Mr Williams added: "There was about 10 cyclists waiting for the lights to change... he hit about four or five - one of the cyclists got up and was about to chase the car."

Aerial footage of the crash shows the silver Ford Fiesta coming along the road next to Parliament Square before moving to turn right towards Westminster Abbey.

As an ambulance passes the car on its right-hand side, the vehicle swerves left - crossing oncoming traffic and a pavement before entering a small road and crashing into a security barrier.

A police officer can be seen jumping another barrier that runs along the side of the road to get away.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45180120

[TheVrist]

ThesunUK called him a british nationalist

[Oswald2001]

Quaker. Right?

[loonodingle]

Originally Posted by Oswald2001 ↗

Quaker. Right?

They should round up the whole family and deport them.. Until you hit these people who have been helped, with A British Citizenship, where it hurts this will continue. There is no real deterrent as it stands. he was hoping he was going to meet his virgins.. Right now he is looking at
loosing his virginity in the next few months once he gets banged up..

[kellyhound]

A man suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack outside the Houses of Parliament has been named as 29-year-old Sudanese immigrant Salih Khater.

Khater, who lives in Birmingham, was arrested after a silver Ford Fiesta veered across a busy road before crashing into security barriers in Westminster yesterday morning.

Khater is reported to be a fan of football and Western music. He lived in a small flat in Birmingham and described himself as a shop manager.

15 cyclists were hit in a chilling echo of Khalid Masood's deadly rampage on Westminster 17 months ago.

Scotland Yard said the attacker drove around London for hours before the crash and arrived in the capital just after midnight before the horrifying scenes unfolded at about 7.40am.

The man was not known to security services.

Officers were last night searching the houses of two addresses in Birmingham and a residential property in Nottingham as part of the terror probe.

Plain-clothed police could be seen outside an address in Peveril Street in Nottingham, which was said by neighbours to be home to six Sudanese people.

There was also a police presence near the Bunna Internet Cafe on Stratford Road in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, but it was not confirmed whether that was in relation to the Westminster probe.

Birmingham Hall Green MP Roger Godsiff said it is believed the suspect had been living in his constituency.

The suspect, who was said to not be co-operating with officers.

[contra]

Video here shows the crash:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45180120

[Meridian]

Well, he largely failed in his efforts, which is a relief.

[bexinthecity]

One of my favourite things in the world is seeing terrorist's fail, so this pleases me :)

[Stevieaitch]

Fuck the bbc.

No weapon recovered eh? So whats that big silver thing with wheels on? Dozy brainwashing twats.

[Oswald2001]

The UK has intentionally been destroyed...by it's 'leaders'.

And the 'leaders' are looking to make it far far worse....intentionally.



I can almost hear the heavens weeping.