Tasered, knifeman at gates of Parliament
A KNIFEMAN was Tasered and arrested outside Parliament yesterday on the anniversary of MP Jo Cox’s murder.
Armed police responded to shouts of ‘knife, knife, knife’ after the suspect allegedly pulled out a weapon when officers approached.
It happened yards from the site of the Westminster terror attack – but Scotland Yard said it was keeping an ‘open mind’ on whether it was a terrorist act.
The bearded man, aged in his 30s, was said to have been acting suspiciously for ten minutes when police moved in. Bradley Allen, 19, from Barking, East London, said: ‘I saw him, his fists were clenched and he seemed like an angry geezer.
‘He shouted something and he went to run towards the gates and within seconds police had him pinned on the ground.’
Last night, there was a suggestion that the arrested man was undergoing psychiatric assessment.