Both suspects, from London, are in custody following a pre-planned raid on a west London address on Thursday by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command and the South East Counter Terrorism Unit. Another man, aged 19, was arrested in south-east London on suspicion of a religiously aggravated offence in a separate matter and remains in custody, police said. Officers searched addresses and vehicles in west and south-east London and the Thames Valley area following the arrests.
Two men have been arrested in west London after a pre-planned raid by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command and the South East Counter Terrorism Unit. According to Scotland Yard, one 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, while a 20-year-old man was detained on suspicion of funding terrorism and failure to disclose information regarding an act of terrorism. In a separate incident in south-east London, a 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a religiously aggravated offence. The arrests were made at addresses across London.