Police investigating alleged terrorism linked to Syria arrest 24-year-old man arriving on flight from Bahrain
Police investigating individuals travelling to Syria in support of alleged terrorist activity have arrested a man at Heathrow airport following his arrival on a flight from Bahrain.
The 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, Scotland Yard said.
Officers from the Metropolitan police's counter-terrorism command detained him at 8.45am on Monday after he was stopped by immigration officials 45 minutes earlier.
"Today's arrest forms part of an investigation into travel to Syria in support of alleged terrorist activity," said a police spokesman.
Another man, Shajul Islam, was charged on 16 October in connection with the same investigation following his arrest at Heathrow last month. The 26-year old trainee NHS doctor was charged with the kidnap of a British journalist and a Dutch colleague in Syria.
Islam, who studied at St Bartholomew's and a University of London hospital, is accused of being part of an extremist group that held John Cantlie, who worked for various newspapers including the Sunday Times, and Jeroen Oerlemans.
Police arrested Islam, from Stratford, east London, as he arrived back in the UK on a flight from Egypt with his wife and one-year-old daughter.
He is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 12 April for a plea and case management hearing, and a six-week trial is set to begin on 5 June.