A PAIR of suspected terrorists accused of attempting to assassinate the King of Spain in 1997 spent two years living in Oxford.

Armed police arrested Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui, 44, at his £200,000 house in Cambridge last Thursday, after acting on a tip-off.

He is accused of being a member of Basque separatist group ETA and plotting to kill King Juan Carlos with a bomb at the opening of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum in 1997.

Eneko, who used the pseudonym Cyril Macq, lived with his brother Ibon Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui at 38 Alexandra Road, off Botley Road, West Oxford, from 2003 to 2005.

Ibon, 57, who was arrested in France and extradited to Spain on terrorism charges last year, is believed to be the leader of Basque separatist group ETA.

Neighbours said Ibon called himself Juien Floch. Former friends still remember the brothers and described Ibon as a “charmer” while IT worker Eneko was said to be “a geek”.

Ibon and his family left the house in 2005 and moved to Biarritz, in south-west France, while Eneko moved to Cambridge with his two children.

Neighbour Melissa Huckins, 42, said: “From what I can remember they were a lovely family.”

Eneko is now in custody awaiting extradition proceedings to send him back to Spain.