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Frontier control at the Port of Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. Photo: Andrew Aitchison \/ In pictures via Getty Images.<\/p>\n
Margaret Davis and Tristan Kirk<\/p>\n
Press AssociationToday at 13:30<\/p>\n
A 24-year-old man accused of trying to smuggle 10 guns and ammunition into the UK as he drove off a ferry into Dover has been remanded in custody.<\/p>\n
Khalid Ahmed, of Ealing, west London, who is a dual Dutch and Irish national, appeared at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Wednesday after being charged overnight with gun charges.<\/p>\n
He was stopped at the port of Dover last Thursday by counter-terrorism police when he arrived in the UK from Calais in France.<\/p>\n
When officers searched Ahmed\u2019s Mercedes, it is alleged that 10 self-loading pistols were found hidden behind the seats along with ammunition.<\/p>\n
Some of the guns were loaded, the court was told.<\/p>\n
Ahmed, a construction worker who was born in Amsterdam, appeared for a brief hearing in front of District Judge Daniel Sternberg on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
He did not enter pleas to 10 counts of possession of a prohibited weapon and one charge of possession of ammunition, and was remanded in custody until a hearing at the Old Bailey on April 17.<\/p>\n
When the charges were announced, Commander Helen Flanagan, head of counter terrorism policing London, said: \u201cWe 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
\u201cGiven the man has been charged, it is important there is no further speculation about the case while criminal proceedings are ongoing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can reassure the public that our investigation remains ongoing to ensure that the public is kept safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Frontier control at the Port of Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. Photo: Andrew Aitchison \/ In pictures via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-376789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376789","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=376789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}