The London Daily News

31 March, 2011 09:36 (GMT +01:00)

Security fears at Olympic site with semtex carrying woman

Crime Desk

Olympic secuity will be further tightened with the news that a woman was found with semtex and a class drugs A in a car near to the Olympic sites.

On Tuesday 29 March acting on information received police stopped and spoke to a woman in a car park off Pudding Mill Lane.

Her vehicle was searched and the 40-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an explosive substance and class A drugs. She is in custody at an east London police station.

Police recovered a very small amount of a substance which is being forensically examined.

The arrest was made by the officers from the Olympic Site Support Unit following information received.

Another car was stopped and searched by the OSSU on the M11. Nothing was found in the car, and the driver was not arrested.

Searches were carried out at residential addresses in Kent and London, no further substances were found.

The investigation is being carried out by Newham CID. The Counter Terrorism Command is aware but the incident is NOT being treated as terrorist related.

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