Overview

• Met Police said counter-terrorism officers stopped a man in his 70s and a woman in her 40s under Schedule 3 at Gatwick on 27 September, then let them continue without arrest.
• The Workers Party of Britain identified the pair as George Galloway and his wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, and called the action politically motivated intimidation.
• Galloway and his wife had flown to the UK from Moscow via a connecting flight from Abu Dhabi, according to multiple reports.
• Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 allows officers at ports to stop, question, search and detain individuals to determine involvement in hostile activity, with powers to examine and retain materials under oversight from the Investigatory Powers Commissioner.
• Some early reports suggested an arrest, but police clarified no arrests were made and no charges or further official actions have been announced.