(ITV) An 18-year-old has been charged as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation.
Muhammad Zakir Arif from Bury, Greater Manchester, was charged with multiple offences following an operation by Counter-Terrorism Policing North West.
On Wednesday, 14 February, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how Arif was being questioned by police in Manchester when he lunged at the detective constable.
Arif, of Harrington Close, is accused of one count of assault occasioning bodily harm, one count of strangulation or suffocation, two counts of possessing a bladed article in a public place and two counts of breaching a Section 49 Ripa order, relating to electronic data access.
