Armed Police Arrest Afghan Special Forces Commando At Manchester Hotel

Armed police arrest Afghan particular forces commando at Manchester resort, Sky Information learns

Police can maintain a suspect for as much as 96 hours with out cost if suspected of a severe crime. They will maintain a suspect for or as much as 14 days with out cost if arrested below terrorism laws.

Armed police have arrested an Afghan particular forces commando at a resort in Manchester the place he had been in quarantine together with his household after arriving on an evacuation flight from Kabul, Sky Information has learnt.

It’s understood that he’s being held under immigration powers and an investigation in nonetheless ongoing.

The pre-dawn raid is believed to have taken place on or round 31 August or 1 September and the person is regarded as nonetheless in detention.

His case shouldn’t be regarded as of concern to the Safety Service, MI5.

The Residence Workplace and the Ministry of Defence declined to remark.

A authorities spokesperson mentioned: “We do not touch upon particular person instances.”

A supply, with information of the case, mentioned that the Afghan commando is known to have arrived together with his household within the UK on a British evacuation flight in August.

They have been put up in a resort in Manchester for his or her interval of coronavirus quarantine as a result of Afghanistan is on the federal government’s COVID purple record.

Better Manchester Police referred a question on the arrest to the Residence Workplace.

The UK evacuated greater than 15,000 Afghans, British nationals and others from Afghanistan in simply two weeks final month following the Taliban takeover.

The overwhelming majority of evacuees have been fleeing in worry for his or her lives, together with 1000’s of Afghans who labored as interpreters and different workers for the UK army and diplomats – going through demise threats from the Taliban in return.

Members of the Afghan particular forces who supplied an important position in tackling the terrorist menace in Afghanistan and served alongside their British and different NATO counterparts have additionally been given a secure haven, with lots of extra hoping to be allowed to resettle in Britain.

They’re residing in hiding in Afghanistan, scared of being hunted down by the nation’s new Taliban rulers.

British safety officers have been working exhausting to vet everybody who’s granted refuge.

The “no-fly record” is designed to dam people who’re thought-about a safety menace from reaching the UK.

In that incident, although, the federal government regarded on the case and determined.