POLICE officers stood guard outside the Chingford home of two terror suspects arrested under anti-terror laws this week.

Brothers Umir and Nabeel Hussain, 24 and 21, of Templeton Avenue, Chingford, were two of 11 Waltham Forest residents detained under the Terrorism Act on August 10, after seven houses were raided in connection with the alleged plot to blow up packed airliners travelling from the UK to the USA.

Two police vans and a team of officers were stationed outside the address following the incident and police tape blocked off the entrance to the property this week.

Iain Duncan Smith MP said: "I was horrified like everyone else must have been to discover that British citizens are suspects in an alleged plot to kill hundreds of innocent people as they headed off on their holidays.

"I was particularly shocked to then find out that some of these people lived in Chingford."

The two brothers, who at the time of going to press remained in police custody, are the sons of former London Transport bus driver, Fazal Hussain.

According to reports, the pair had once been buyers and sellers of cars and trucks, which packed their street while they waited to sell them.

The house had been a busy one, with people always coming and going and the family were popular and sent Christmas cards to neighbours. Although the cars and trucks reportedly disappeared several years ago, after their father returned from a three month trip to Pakistan, and the brothers grew beards and began visiting the Chingford Islamic Society Mosque in Chingford Mount Road.

Speaking through an interpreter, Fazal Hussain told the Times he believed his sons were innocent.

The interpreter said: "They showed no signs of being radicalised. Anyone who knew them would swear on the Koran that they are innocent."

Mr Duncan Smith said he is concerned over the radicalisation of some of the UK's Muslim youth which he believes is much deeper than has been previously realised, but elsewhere in the borough MP Neil Gerrard reminded residents that no charges have yet been brought.

He said: "Anyone who is arrested is innocent until proven guilty. Arrest should not equate with guilt."