LONDON — A terror suspect accused of crashing his car into the security barriers surrounding Britain’s Houses of Parliament appears in court Monday on charges of attempted murder.
Sudanese-born British national Salih Khater is accused of driving into a group of cyclists and then police officers last Tuesday.
He appears at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Monday where judge Emma Arbuthnot, England’s chief magistrate, remands him in custody following a seven-minute hearing.
The 29-year-old is charged with two counts of attempted murder of members of the public and of police officers. He doesn’t enter a plea on Monday.
Khater will next appear for another short hearing at the Old Bailey in London, England’s central criminal court, on August 31.
Prosecutor Samuel Main alleges that Khater “accelerated into a group of cyclists,” then, having driven through them, “veered off the open road, down a chute and towards police officers” guarding the parliament building.
The incident followed a “short but intensive period of reconnaissance,” he alleges.
Main says detectives had made extensive inquiries and had come up with “no evidence” of an accident, mechanical failure, a medical episode or disorder, intention to commit suicide or a crisis in Khater’s personal circumstances.
The prosecutor alleges it was a “deliberately calculated attack.”
— AFP
A police van suspected of carrying Salih Khater arrives at Westminster Magistrates court in central London on August 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ben Stansall)
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