A court hearing of two men, who were charged with a plot to
kill British Prime Minister Theresa May, is expected to be held on
Wednesday, the country's media reported.
Naa'imur
Zakariyah Rahman, 20, and Mohammed Aqib Imran, 21, planned to blow up
security barriers outside May's Downing Street office and then stab the
British leader to death, the reports said.
The reports
came a day after Home Secretary Amber Rudd told parliament that 22
terrorist plots had been thwarted since the killing of a British soldier
on a London street by two militants in 2013.
Nine
of the plots were uncovered following an attack outside the British
parliament in March in which five people were killed, Rudd said.
“The
UK is facing an intense threat from terrorism, one which is
multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we
have not seen before,” London's Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday.
The
police said there were now 500 counter-terrorism investigations
involving 3,000 people and more than 20,000 other people have been
investigated in the past.
Britain has seen five terror
attacks this year, which killed 36 people and injured more than 200
others. Four of them were claimed by the militant Islamic State group.
Three of the perpetrators were known to security services, according to an internal review which said opportunities to stop the Manchester Arena bombing attack were missed by security services.
