The suspected terrorist accused of ploughing into cyclists outside the Houses of Parliament had recently been kicked out of university, it has emerged.

Sudanese immigrant Salih Khater, 29, who is currently being questioned by police over the Westminster attack, was forced out of Coventry University after failing the first year of his accountancy course.

More details have begun to emerge about the suspect, who lived in a small flat in Birmingham and described himself as a shop manager who loved Western pop music and football.

Addresses in the Midlands were being searched on Tuesday night as police investigated Khater, who was arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terror. Police revealed on Wednesday that he was later further arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

Sources have confirmed that he was granted asylum in Britain a decade ago and was granted citizenship earlier this year.

Khater is believed to have travelled through the night before waiting in Westminster for more than an hour-and-a-half before mowing down cyclists in the heart of Westminster on Tuesday morning.

As rush-hour began, he swerved onto the wrong side of the road and hit cyclists who were waiting at the traffic lights. He then crashed into barriers outside the entrance to the House of Lords.