London - Police have made hunting down the London nailbombers their No 1 priority, the Home Secretary, Mr Jack Straw, said yesterday. The Brixton and Brick Lane bombings were the key aim of the whole of the Metropolitan Police Service, he told the Commons.
In a statement on the terror campaign, Mr Straw warned: "Whilst the perpetrators of this violence remain at large there is plainly a risk that they may strike again. "We have to meet that threat with vigilance but without panic."
He assured MPs: "The police are pursuing the investigations of these bombings and the protection of the public with the utmost vigour."
The Shadow Home Secretary, Sir Norman Fowler, joined the government in "utterly condemning this action and the people responsible for it".