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07-01-2007, 10:21 PM
Terror alert: Arrest and raids in Liverpool
Jul 1 2007 Liverpool Echo
TWO HOUSES in South Liverpool have been raided by police in connection with the national terror alert.
The raids, in Ramilies Road in Allerton and Hatherley Street, Toxteth, follows the arrest of a 26-year-old man in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of this morning.
The man is believed to have been taken to London where he will be questioned in connection with the three failed car bomb attempts - two in London and one in Glasgow.
Rachal Tansey, 27, a student who has just qualified as a barrister, lived over the road from the house raided in Allerton.
Miss Tansey said: “It was about 1am when I heard dogs barking, and I left it for a while and just hoped they would quieten down, but they didn’t.
“I looked out of the bathroom window and saw men with big guns, and they barged into number 80. There was a bit of a commotion. It was shocking, I kept backing off from the curtains and the police helicopter was overhead. I saw at least four officers in dark clothing.”
Miss Tansey said she didn’t know the people who lived at the address, though the area is heavily populated with students and Asian people, with a mosque on a neighbouring street.
She added: “I’m shocked at what’s going on, you don’t expect it to be happening outside your own home.”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/07/01/terror-alert--arrest-and-raids-in-liverpool-100252-19388804/
Of course Ramilies Rd is not in Allerton but is just off Penny Lane, Mossley Hill
Jul 1 2007 Liverpool Echo
TWO HOUSES in South Liverpool have been raided by police in connection with the national terror alert.
The raids, in Ramilies Road in Allerton and Hatherley Street, Toxteth, follows the arrest of a 26-year-old man in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of this morning.
The man is believed to have been taken to London where he will be questioned in connection with the three failed car bomb attempts - two in London and one in Glasgow.
Rachal Tansey, 27, a student who has just qualified as a barrister, lived over the road from the house raided in Allerton.
Miss Tansey said: “It was about 1am when I heard dogs barking, and I left it for a while and just hoped they would quieten down, but they didn’t.
“I looked out of the bathroom window and saw men with big guns, and they barged into number 80. There was a bit of a commotion. It was shocking, I kept backing off from the curtains and the police helicopter was overhead. I saw at least four officers in dark clothing.”
Miss Tansey said she didn’t know the people who lived at the address, though the area is heavily populated with students and Asian people, with a mosque on a neighbouring street.
She added: “I’m shocked at what’s going on, you don’t expect it to be happening outside your own home.”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/07/01/terror-alert--arrest-and-raids-in-liverpool-100252-19388804/
Of course Ramilies Rd is not in Allerton but is just off Penny Lane, Mossley Hill