© APAn undated image of Salih Khater taken from his Facebook page
Khater of Highgate Street, Birmingham, a Sudan-born UK national, will appear in custody at Westminster magistrates court on Monday 20 August, charged with the attempted murder of members of the public and the attempted murder of police officers.
He allegedly drove his vehicle into pedestrians before deliberately swerving towards police officers, before crashing into barriers outside the Palace of Westminster.
Prosecutors will be treating his case as terrorism, the Metropolitan police said after charging him on Saturday.
Comment: At this point, it's not entirely clear that Khater deliberately swerved, or simply lost control of his vehicle. See the following on-site report by Graham Phillips:
As Phillips points out, regardless of the truth of the matter, police have a vested interest in pushing the terrorism angle, lest they have their incompetence exposed.