Overview

• Two men aged 41 and 46 and a 35-year-old woman were detained in Grays, Essex on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service linked to Russia.
• The Met’s Counter Terrorism Command is leading the National Security Act probe after searches at two addresses and questioning at a London police station.
• All three suspects were released on conditional police bail as inquiries continue, and Scotland Yard declined to disclose their nationalities.
• Commander Dominic Murphy warned of rising use of locally recruited “proxies” by hostile services and referenced a separate Wagner-linked arson case that produced recent guilty verdicts.
• Several outlets noted the arrests coincided with President Donald Trump’s state visit for talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.