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Video: Police cut through front door of ‘alleged weapons smuggler’ in morning raid

Published 26 August 2026, 5:34pm

The police used an electric saw to cut through the front door of a property used by an “alleged weapons smuggler” in Lambeth. The Met said more than a dozen officers raided the property on Wandsworth Road at 5:09am on Tuesday, August 25, giving the “suspected knife smuggler” a…

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