South London: Four Arrested Over Kidnapping Of Three Brothers

Police have made four more arrests over the disappearance of three young brothers kidnapped by their father from a foster home in south London.

The new suspects are all male and were arrested in Ilford, east London, on Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to abduct children and remain in custody.

They are all thought to be known to the boys' father Imran Safi, 26, who officers believe may have abducted his sons because they were about to be officially adopted.

On Thursday, police put out an urgent appeal after Bilal, Mohammed Ebrar and Mohammed Yaseen, aged six, five and three, were taken from their home in Coulsdon on Thursday 20 August.

In a statement from Scotland Yard, detectives said the children were playing in the garden while their foster carer was in the house.

She told officers she heard footsteps nearby, turned around and saw Mr Safi, who then threatened her with a knife and used force to take the children.

He drove off in his distinctive red Nissan Qashqai car, with a reg plate which reads PK13 WFO, in Coulsdon Road, Croydon, south London, later that afternoon.