Three more West Midlands men charged in connection with ‘Pakistani dissidents assault plots’
Three more men, all from the West Midlands, have been charged in connection with alleged plots to attack two Pakistani dissidents at their homes in the UK.
They are variously accused of conspiring assaults at an address in Cambridgeshire and another in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on Christmas Eve last year.
Asaf Afsar, 40, Mark Regan, 53, and Liam McGarry, 25, were charged on Wednesday (February 4) in relation to the events, the Metropolitan Police said.
Afsar and Regan, both of Birmingham, are each charged with two counts of conspiracy to assault and occasion bodily harm, in relation to the two incidents.
McGarry, of Warwick, is charged with conspiracy to assault and occasion bodily harm only in relation to the incident in Cambridgeshire.
They are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
Four other men were previously charged in connection with the investigation.
Louis Regan, 25, from Birmingham, and Karl Blackbird, 40, from Bedworth, face two charges of conspiracy to commit assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Clark McAulay, 39, from Coventry, faces one charge of conspiracy to commit assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to the incident in Chesham.
And Doneto Brammer, 21, from Wood Green, north London, faces charges of possession of a prohibited weapon, conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life, and conspiracy to commit arson being reckless as to whether life would be endangered.
Brammer is accused over a further incident on New Year’s Eve last year, a court has heard.
The four were remanded into custody last month ahead of a hearing at the Old Bailey on February 13.
