As a result of information received at the time from people who were at the scene, and subsequent investigations carried out by the Counter Terrorism Command ... I am treating this as a terrorist incident.

Richard Walton

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The day Yvonne was shot remains one of the saddest and darkest days in the history of British policing, we have never lost our resolve to solve this case and to bring to justice those who conspired to commit this act of murder.

Witnesses may now be living in other countries all these years later, we are hoping that with the passage of time and with allegiances changing, that witnesses who have not spoken to us will examine their consciences and come forward.

This is the first significant arrest in this investigation we do believe today's arrests mark a significant turning point.

While I cannot go into further details regarding this live investigation, I can confirm that a team of officers, led by a senior detective from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, are working closely with the Tunisian authorities on both investigations and we have advised the coroner of the connection between the two.

It is an extremely dangerous place and we have seen reports of what life is like for them and how restricted their lives become.

Ziamani was an impressionable young man who became radicalized then rapidly developed an extremist, violent mindset, over a series of months he ultimately developed a desire to carry out a terrorist attack on British soldiers.