Overview

• A car-ramming and stabbing outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester left two people dead before the attacker, named by police as Jihad al‑Shamie, was shot dead by armed officers.
• The Met said Saturday’s Trafalgar Square gathering would promote a proscribed group, Palestine Action, and warned it will deploy extra officers and arrest those committing offences, noting 1,422 arrests at two similar events.
• Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood called the planned protest unacceptable, said she is consulting the Met on options, and condemned Thursday night demonstrations held hours after the attack.
• Police say they cannot lawfully ban a static assembly in advance, although they can impose conditions and enforce offences linked to supporting a proscribed organisation.
• About 40 people were arrested during protests in central London on Thursday, including six for alleged assaults on officers, as the Met increased visible patrols around synagogues and mosques and prepared to draw on support from other forces.