A MAN has been charged with terrorism offences after police raided a disused pub in Ross-on-Wye.

Toby Shone, 43, has been charged with seven offences, including three terrorism and four drugs offences.

Shone, of The Cross, Drybrook in the Forest of Dean, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Friday where he was remanded in custody before an appearance at the Central Criminal Court on February 19.

Counter terrorism police said Shone was initially arrested on November 18, but he was re-arrested on Wednesday before being charged on Thursday.

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Counter-terrorism police said the arrest and charges are in connection with searches in Lydbrook and Coleford in Gloucestershire and in Ross-on-Wye on November 18.

The offences are:

  • Providing a service to others that enabled them to obtain, read, listen to or look at a publication, and he intended an effect of his conduct to be a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism contrary to section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
  • Inviting others to provide funds intending, or having reasonable cause to suspect, that it would be use for the purposes of terrorism contrary to section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
  • Possession of information likely to be useful to a terrorist contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
  • Possession of a controlled drug, class A, with intent to supply contrary to section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
  • Possession of a controlled drug, class B, with intent to supply contrary to section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
  • Producing a controlled drug, class B, contrary to section 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
  • Possession of a controlled drug, class A, contrary to section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

The search of the Riverside Inn in Wye Street, Ross-on-Wye, was part of an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South East.

They said specialist officers were carrying out searches and may at times be wearing protective suits, but said there was no wider threat to the public.