Dover petrol bomb attack on migrant centre not treated as terror incident until two days after
Police officers at the scene of the attack in Dover, Kent. Picture date: Sunday October 30, 2022.
AUTHORITIES have been accused of failing to take the far-right threat seriously enough after police took two days to treat Sunday’s firebomb attack in Dover as a terror act.
The attacker, named as 66-year-old Andrew Leak, from High Wycombe, was “driven by hate,” according to counterterrorism police who took over the investigation on Tuesday.
He travelled 160 miles alone to Dover, where he threw three petrol bombs at the Western Jet Foil reception centre, causing minor injuries to two members of staff.
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