Counter terrorism police probe Speakers’ Corner attack

The Metropolitan Police has stated that the recent knife attack on a 39-year-old woman at Speakers' Corner in London is being investigated by the force’s SO15 Counter Terrorism Command.

The victim needed hospital treatment after she was attacked in Hyde Park on 25 July. No arrests have been made although a knife was later found in the park.

Although its investigation was being led by Counter Terrorism Command, the Met Police said that ‘the incident is not being treated as terrorism-related’.

Footage shared on social media showed a person dressed in black approaching a woman wearing a Charlie Hebdo T-shirt at Speakers' Corner. Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical magazine that was targeted in a deadly attack by Islamist extremists in 2015 after it published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.