A specialist police unit has begun a search of the River Thames in the hunt for Clapham attack suspect Abdul Ezedi. It comes after police said they believed Ezedi may have thrown himself off Chelsea Bridge and drowned in the Thames.
A specialist police unit has begun a search of the River Thames in the hunt for Clapham attack suspect Abdul Ezedi . It comes after police said they believed Ezedi may have thrown himself off Chelsea Bridge and drowned in the Thames. A Marine Policing Unit is now carrying out searches in the area, with a boat seen circling between Vauxhall and Chelsea bridges on Saturday morning.
Officers have been chasing the 35-year-old Afghan asylum seeker since Wednesday, January 31, after he doused a mother and her two daughters in a chemical. Ezedi is now thought to have “gone into the water” and is probably dead after he was last seen on Chelsea Bridge at 11.27pm on the night of the attack last week, according to Met polic
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