East London Life

You would think that after the Forest Gate debacle, the Met would have learned to be a little more sure of their “intelligence” before they went kicking in peoples doors again. You’d be wrong however.

At dawn yesterday morning the Met anti-terror cops stormed a house in Shadwell and spent five hours tearing the place apart before realizing that they were in the wrong place. It seems that they were looking for a man in Manor Park, seven miles down the road.

How it can take five hours of tramping about in a terrace occupied by a very scared couple and their cat to realize that the person that they (presumably) can recognize is not there is beyond me.

Said Scotland Yard:

“We apologize for the inconvenience, our actions were in good faith.”

So, bad intelligence plus good faith equals what exactly? A trashed house and no disciplinary action, just like before…