A person was charged in reference to final week’s bomb hoax exterior the U.S. Embassy in London, authorities from the U.Ok. mentioned Monday.
Daniel Parmenter, 43, was charged and brought into custody Monday, after showing at Ealing Magistrates’ Court docket. He was arrested at his dwelling Sunday.
The authorized developments come after U.Ok. police on Friday carried out a managed explosion of a suspicious bundle that they found exterior the U.S. Embassy.
“We can confirm that the ‘loud bang’ reported in the area a short time ago was a controlled explosion carried out by officers,” London’s Metropolitan Police wrote Friday in a submit on social platform X.
Police initially suspected the bundle to be a bomb however mentioned they now not thought so after blowing up the bundle.
Enterprise on the U.S. Embassy on Friday was impeded by the bomb hoax. Public appointments, together with for visas and passports, have been canceled Friday, and officers mentioned they’d contact candidates to reschedule.
The Related Press contributed.