Terror suspects in court

Five suspected terrorists arrested during a series of raids appeared for the first time at the Old Bailey today and were remanded in custody.

Jawad Akbar, 20, Omar Khyam, 22, and Waheed Mahmoud, 32 - all from Crawley - and Anthony Garcia, 21, of Ilford, are all charged with conspiring to cause an explosion.

They are jointly charged with a 17-year-old youth who appeared with them and cannot be named for legal reasons.

All five are alleged to have " maliciously" participated in a conspiracy between 1 October last year and 31 March, along with a Canadian, Mohammad-Momin Khawaja, 24, who has appeared in court in Ottawa.

Khyam, Garcia and 19-year-old Nabeel Hussain, of Horley, have also been charged under the Terrorism Act with possession of an article for the purposes of terrorism. The three are alleged to have stored 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser in Hanwell in circumstances that provided "suspicion it was for purposes connected with terrorism".

They were remanded in custody until 16 July.