00:01A teenage boy who was arrested and now been charged with attempted murder
00:05was found at a mosque in the NW10 area.
00:09The Metropolitan Police said it did not believe that the suspect had a connection to the mosque
00:14and that it was thought it was coincidental he was in the area.
00:17Detective Chief Inspector Luke Williams said that he understood the incident
00:21had been hugely distressing for the local community,
00:24but added it was a one-off event which had led to the swift arrest of the suspect.
00:28BBC Special Correspondent Lucy Manning said it was understood that investigating officers believed
00:34the suspect's motivation might have been related to a personal grievance
00:39rather than an ideological motivation.
00:42Detective Chief Superintendent Helen Flanagan of Counterterrorism Police in London
00:47said that a boy had arrived at the school at 12.30.
00:50Officers were called to the scene at 12.39 and arrived 13 minutes later.
00:56The Metropolitan Police said that the suspect had fled the school immediately after the attacks.
01:01He was arrested when officers received reports of a child in distress at a mosque
01:06and a knife was also seized.
01:09Speaking in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Sakhir Starmer described the stabbing
01:13as an appalling attack and said his thoughts were with the two children and all of those affected.
01:20Dawn Butler, MP for Brenti, said that the whole school community,
01:23including the parents and the wider community, were deeply shocked by the incident.
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