Detectives from counter-terror in London are investigating due to the “highly targeted nature of the incidents”
A fourth man has been charged in connection with incidents at addresses in Cambridge and in Buckinghamshire. The matters are being investigated by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing London.
Three men appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday (January 24) after being charged on Friday. They were remanded into custody to appear at the Old Bailey on February 13.
A fourth man has now been charged Louis Regan, 25, of no fixed abode, was charged on Saturday with conspiracy to assault and occasion bodily harm in relation to an incident in Cambridge on Christmas Eve last year. He is also accused of the same offence linked to an incident in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on the same day. He has been remanded into custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday (January 26).
Officers made a series of arrests in London, Essex and the Midlands after several incidents, starting on Christmas Eve in both Cambridge and Chesham. Counter-Terror specialists took over the investigation due to “what appears to be the highly targeted nature” of the incidents.
Karl Blackbird, 40, of Bedworth, was charged with conspiracy to assault and occasion bodily harm in relation to two alleged attacks on December 24. Clark McAuley, 39, of Coventry, is charged with conspiracy to assault and occasion bodily harm after an alleged incident in Chesham on December 24.
Doneto Brammer, 21, of Wood Green, London, was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to commit arson being reckless as to whether life would be endangered. This is all in relation to an incident at an address in Cambridge on New Year’s Eve last year.
Police arrested a man, 34, in Great Dunmow, Essex, on January 5 in connection with an incident in Cambridge on December 31. He has been released on bail until a date in April.
Five more people – four men and a woman – were arrested on Wednesday (January 21), including three of those that have now been charged. The others who were arrested – a man, 30, in Birmingham, and a woman, 40, in north London, have been released on bail to dates in April.
