A Tamil arrested for security breach just prior to Queen Elizabethdeclare opens new terminal at the Heathrow airport

London, 15 March, (Asiantribune.com): Mystery surrounds why the twenty
seven year old Sri Lankan Tamil Ketheeswara Uthayakumar has committed
one of the worst security breaches at London's main Heathrow Airport.

He was scheduled to appear at Uxbridge Magistrate court in West London
to face a charge of aircraft endangerment after being arrested by
police near the Northern runway last Thursday.

The security breach came less than 24 hours before Queen Elizabeth II
declared open a 4.3 billion new terminal, named as 'terminal 5' for
England's busiest airport.

Eyewitnesses told Police that Ketheeswaran Udayakumar scaled the
airport fence before running across runway 27 in front of an Emirates
Jet. Police said they arrested him after he was surrounded by armed
policemen.

According to eyewitness accounts the Police arrested him when he was
sprinting in to the path of a plane on a runway just after 2 p.m.

Since the Queen was to visit the airport to ceremonially open the
newly built runway in less than a day, the incident by the Sri Lankan
Tamil triggered a major security alert.

The man carrying a backpack allegedly climbed over a fence of
Heathrow's Northern runway, dumped the bag on the grass perimeter, and
ran into the path of an Emirates 777 Boeing jet. He was being held in
custody before being produced at Uxbridge magistrate's court, police
sources said.

The incident immediately caused flight delays and cancellations. The
partial closing down of the Northern runway caused the flight delays
and cancellations.

The incident was the second time Heathrow's security has been breached
during the last few weeks. A team of Green Peace agitators walked into
a runway last month climbed on to a Boeing 777 and unfurled a huge
banner protesting against the Airport expansion. Two days later a
group called Plane Stupid breached the security of the Westminster
parliament, climbed on to its roof and unfurled a huge banner for the
same protest. But both groups denied involvement in the Sri Lankan
Tamil incident.

The bag he was carrying has been found to have contained only clothes.
London's Metro newspaper said: "The ease with which he evaded
detection and scaled the 15 feet fence is deeply worrying for security
officials. One security insider said What if he had been a suicide
bomber and had reached the plane? The consequences could have been
catastrophic!"


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