Croydon businessman quizzed by terror cops after romantic day out with wife

Mohammed Khan, owner of the Urban Junction clothing store in the Whitgift shopping centre, decided to take his wife out for the day to a Redhill viewpoint, where he’d once played cricket.

When he got there he became lost, so he decided to ask a courier driver in a petrol station for directions to the view point, which overlooks London.

Last week – a full three weeks after the visit – he had a phone call from anti-terrorism police asking him questions about his visit.

Mr Khan, 31, said: “The last thing you expect is to get a call from the police asking why you were asking for directions to somewhere you could get good views of Gatwick.

“I didn’t even say that. That is why I am annoyed.

“Fair enough, the police have to do their job and I completely understand that, they have to worry about these things.

“But when you just want to go out and sit somewhere nice outside of Croydon with your wife, then weeks later you shouldn’t get a call from the cops asking what you were doing, it is a bit worrying.”

The courier driver apparently rang the police to report Mr Khan, giving them his license plate number.

Mr Khan said: “I went to Egypt on holiday for two weeks and when I got back my wife got a call from Surrey police telling her they needed me to get in contact with them.

“When I did I found out what the courier driver had said and told them I was furious.

“I was born and bred in this country and I consider myself English. What terrorists do isn’t what I would call being a good Muslim.

“The police were very nice and very understanding, but I think people should really think before they make things up about people.

“I could have spent days in a prison cell under anti-terror laws for something I hadn’t even done.”

Surrey Police were unavailable for comment.

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