MI5 to strengthen Commons security

THE British government called in MI5 yesterday to help tighten security at Westminster after two men were charged over a purple flour bomb attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Patrick Ronald Davis, aged 48, of Worthing, Sussex, and Guy Richard Harrison, aged 36, of Ashurst, Sussex, will appear at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court in London next Wednesday.

The two men were charged with “using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress” over Wednesday’s Commons attack.