Two men arrested by counter-terror police in Manchester are suspected to have been plotting to target the city’s Jewish community, police have revealed.
Specialist officers from the Metropolitan Police seized the pair in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on Sunday before raiding a nearby hostel.
It came on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and nearly one year since the deadly terror attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in which Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed.
Today, the Met confirmed the investigation relates to a suspected terrorist plot to target the Jewish community in the Manchester area and said they
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