The Latest Breaking News from the Met Counter Terrorism Command

London man who joined jihadist group in Syria jailed for nine years

Isa Giga, 32, from Hounslow, was arrested at Heathrow Airport in May 2024 after flying back from Turkey

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2025

BBC Bargain Hunt star Ochuko Ojiri jailed over £140,000 art deals to suspected terrorist financier

BBC star Ochuko Ojiri traded art to a suspected terrorist financier to try to boost his career

Evening Standard · Jun 6, 2025

Iranian nationals charged in alleged UK spy ring plot to aid foreign intelligence

The three men have been remanded in custody

Evening Standard · May 17, 2025

Sixth person charged with allegedly spying for Russia in UK

Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev has been charged over alleged Russian spying offences

Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2024

Man arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred at pro-Palestine protest in London

Metropolitan Police have released images of six men that they want to speak with

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

Boy, 17, arrested by counter terror police after pro Hamas social media post

Thousands of social media posts have been referred to Met’s counter terror since 7 October

The Independent UK · Nov 16, 2023

Two men arrested amid reports a parliamentary researcher is a Chinese spy

Homes in Scotland, Oxfordshire and East London searched as part of the operation

Evening Standard · Sep 9, 2023

Neo-Nazis who demanded Archie be 'put down' in vile podcast guilty of terrorism offences

Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh have been found guilty of terrorism offences following a trial at Kingston Crown Court and will be sentenced on September 26

Daily Mirror · Jul 7, 2023

Men who used neo-Nazi podcast to encourage violence on ethnic minorities convicted

They encouraged listeners to go out and commit acts of terrorist violence

Evening Standard · Jul 7, 2023

Indian man arrested in London faces extradition to US over terrorism charges

Arrest part of wider joint action by UK and US targeting terror financing

The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2023