Counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the firebombing of a Dover immigration centre, police have confirmed. It comes as Kent Police named the suspect, who was found dead a short while after the incident on Sunday, as Andrew Leak.
The 66-year-old suspect is from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, about 118 miles from Dover. The force clarified that the incident has not been declared a terrorist attack, but that it was "likely to be driven by some form of hate-filled grievance".
Leak is believed to have thrown two or three “crude” incendiary devices at the Border Force migrant centre from his car on Sunday morning, which caused a fire injuring two people. He is then believed to have killed himself at a nearby petrol station, police said.
