A SUSPECTED white supremacist was arrested in an anti-terror swoop by police. Ian Davison was arrested yesterday at his County Durham home on suspicion of extreme right-wing activity.

And the county’s police force last night said the man was believed to belong to a group who believe ‘England is for the English’.

Officers have so far been unable to disclose the identity of the white-supremacy movement Davison is understood to belong to.

The 41-year-old was last night still detained at a West Yorkshire police station, on suspicion of committing offences under the Terrorism Act 2000, as a team searched his Myrtle Grove home, in Burnopfield.

His teenage son Nicky Davison, was also arrested and detained overnight. He was being questioned at a Durham station, on suspicion of race-motivated, but non-terrorist, offences.

The 18-year-old was arrested at his Grampian Court home, Annfield Plain, as part of the early-morning double-swoop.

Police are understood to be studying whether material removed from the property was racist in nature.

Officers refused to disclose any further details of the alleged offences.

Moving to reassure the two North Durham communities stunned by the arrests, chief inspector Stu Exley said the intelligence-led operation had been launched to ‘nip’ any racist activity ‘in the bud’. He said: “We have used this legislation to give us more time to handle this investigation. No identified groups within society have been targeted and we are not responding to specific threats on any individual or minority.