On Monday (November 25), British authorities announced that a man is connected to a bomb hoax near the US Embassy in London last week and legal proceedings have been initiated against him.
According to reports from the Associated Press, 43-year-old Daniel Parmenter appeared in the Ealing Magistrates Court on Monday. In a statement, the police mentioned that he was remanded pending trial after the court hearing and is scheduled to appear at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly known as the Old Bailey, on December 23.
Parmenter was arrested at his home on Sunday. Last Friday, controlled detonation was carried out by the police on a suspicious package found near the US Embassy in London.
The London Metropolitan Police posted on the social media platform X last Friday, stating, “We can confirm that the ‘loud bang’ heard in the area recently was from a controlled explosion carried out by the police.”
Authorities later clarified that the package was not initially suspected to be a bomb. This incident disrupted the operations at the US Embassy, leading to the cancellation of public appointments for the day. Embassy officials indicated they would be contacting applicants to reschedule.
During the handling of the bomb threat, all precautionary measures were taken by the authorities, including a temporary street closure.
In a statement on Monday, the police said, “This investigation is not linked to any similar suspicious package incidents reported in the past few days.”
After investigating a suspicious package last Saturday, controlled detonation was also conducted near Euston Station in central London.
On the same day as the embassy bomb hoax incident last Friday, London Gatwick Airport issued a security alert. The alert was lifted after a bomb disposal team handled a suspected prohibited item in a baggage at the airport’s South Terminal.