Born in 1974, Saeed is the son of a wholesale clothes merchant from Wanstead in northeast London.

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The Metropolitan Police wants to use Wanstead Flats, east London, as a base for thousands of officers while the Games are held in nearby Stratford.

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Scotland Yard said Wanstead Flats was the "only practicable site" for its plans and promised it would be returned to its original condition once the event was over.

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Mr Duncan Smith dismissed the petition as a "complete stunt" and told his local Wanstead and Woodford Guardian he had been unemployed twice so "I know what it is like to live on the breadline".

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