LONDON: Three more men have been charged in connection with an investigation into attacks on the residential addresses of Adil Raja and Shahzad Akbar in Chesham and Cambridge in late December 2025 and January 2026 – bringing the number to a total seven charged so far.
Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Policing told Geo News that three more men have been charged – in addition to four already charged - following authorisation from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
One of the three newly charged seems to be of Pakistani origin. Police said Asaf Afsar, 30, of Leahall Road, Stechford, Birmingham was charged with conspiracy to assault and occasion bodily harm in relation to an attack on Adil Raja’s home in Chesham on December 24, 2025, and a conspiracy to assault and occasion bodily harm – in relation to an incident in Cambridge at Shehzad Akbar’s home on December 24, 2025.
The two others are Liam McGarry of Kington Lane, Claverdon, Warwick charged with conspiracy to assault Shahzad Akbar on December 24, 2025, and Mark Regan of Burnaston Road, Birmingham, also charged with conspiracy to assault both
Adil Raja and Akbar on December 24. The police said that the three men were all arrested on Tuesday. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has welcomed the arrests.
