Four men who were arrested under terrorism laws after a bomb exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday have been released without charge.
This follows after police named Emad Al Swealmeen as the man who died when a homemade bomb blew up in the back of a taxi shortly before 11:00 GMT. It is understood that Swealmeen was an asylum seeker from the Middle East, who converted to Christianity in 2017.
Police said that “important evidence” had been found at an address he rented. In an update on Monday evening the head of Counter Terrorism Policing North West said that the property was “becoming central to the investigation”.
This was the address where Swealmeen was picked up by the taxi before being driven to the Liverpool Women’s Hospital. The taxi driver, David Perry managed to escape before the taxi caught fire and has since been discharged from hospital.
The head of Counter Terrorism Policing North West said: “We have made significant progress since Sunday morning and have a much greater understanding of the component parts of the device, how they were obtained and how the parts are likely to have been assembled.”
But he said it could take weeks to establish how the incident was planned and prepared.
Four men had been arrested for the incident previously but were released once it was established that they were not involved in the incident.
The UK terror threat level was raised from “substantial” to “severe” on Monday, meaning an attack is “highly likely”, because the explosion in Liverpool was the second incident in a month, following the death of Conservative MP Sir David Amess.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist, one of Counter Terrorism Policing’s senior national co-ordinators, said the change was a “precautionary measure and not based on any specific threat”.
Sources: BBC, Lancashire Evening
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