Did police shoot to kill in Forest Gate anti-terror raid?
On Tuesday, June 13, Mohammed Abdul Kahar and his brother Abdul Koyair spoke publicly for the first time of the anti-terror raid on their east London home, during which Kahar was shot. They also spoke of the seven days during which they were detained by police before being freed without charge. Their accounts were harrowing. Kahar, 23, and Koyair, 20, are the British-born sons of Bangladeshi parents and live with their family in Forest Gate. In the early hours of Friday June 2, their home was targeted for an anti-terror raid. Some 250 police officers were involved in the operation, after an informant apparently tipped off police that a suicide bomb vest laced with poisonous chemicals was being prepared on the premises. Fifty police, including armed officers dressed in black and wearing hoods, broke down the front door and ran into the house. Kahar told a press conference that he was woken at 4:00 a.m. by the screams of his younger brother. “I could hear him screaming, so I got out of b
