A 24-year-old man who was stopped as he arrived in the UK from France last week, has been charged with ten counts of possession of firearms.<\/p>\n
Khalid Ahmed, of Ealing, west London, who is a dual Dutch and Irish national, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, where he will also face one charge of possession of prohibited ammunition.<\/p>\n
He was stopped at Dover last Thursday by counter-terrorism police when he arrived in the UK from France, and when officers searched his car it is alleged that self-loading pistols were found.<\/p>\n
He was charged with ten counts of possession of a prohibited weapon, and the ammunition count.<\/p>\n
Commander Helen Flanagan, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said: “We appreciate this news may be concerning to the public, but since this arrest took place, we have been carrying out a number of inquiries and to date, we have not identified any imminent threats to the public relating to this.<\/p>\n
“Given the man has been charged, it is important there is no further speculation about the case while criminal proceedings are ongoing.<\/p>\n
“But I can reassure the public that our investigation remains ongoing to ensure that the public is kept safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man who was stopped as he arrived in the UK from France last week, has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-376424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}