A British Muslim convert who appeared in a BBC documentary is reportedly one of six people arrested over a suspected terror plot - including three living just over a mile from the Olympic site.
Richard Dart, 29, who changed his name to Salahuddin al-Britani after converting, was said to have been one of three people detained in Ealing, west London, on Thursday. He was arrested in the street. The others detained in Ealing were a 21-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman held at separate home addresses.
Dart appeared in a BBC Three documentary, My Brother The Islamist, made by his stepbrother Robb Leech last year. It told how Dart, originally from Weymouth in Dorset, had been converted by controversial cleric Anjem Choudary. In the documentary he spoke of his support for jihad and sharia law.
Meanwhile, in Stratford, east London, the home of the Olympics, three men believed to be members of the same Bangladeshi family were arrested in a raid on their home.
One, aged 24, was Tasered during his arrest but did not require hospital treatment, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said. The others were aged 18 and 26.
Neighbours said the occupants had been at the house for many years and there were frequently people coming and going from the property. They spoke of seeing men in Muslim-style robes and a woman in a burka.
One local, who asked not to be named, described the men as "good people".
"They are religious and they go to the mosque," she said. "They are usual Muslim young boys."
Trainee taxi driver Stephen Maguire, 23, said he heard the police raid from his bedroom in Eastbourne Road, which overlooks the front of the house. "I heard the biggest bang ever and I saw a massive cloud of smoke and torches going up at the windows," he said. "It sounded like they were gunshots but they weren't."
The six, who include a former police community support officer, were being held at a south east London police station on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
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