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A play by homegrown terrorist Usman Khan which foretold elements of his Fishmongers’ Hall atrocity did not give security services cause for concern, a senior MI5 official has said. The script, entitled Drive North, was written while 28-year-old Khan was serving eight years in prison for planning a terror training camp in his parents’ homeland of Pakistan, and was passed on to MI5 in early 2019. Khan went on to kill Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at an event by prisoner ed...

MI5 could not have prevented the Fishmongers’ Hall attack despite earlier intelligence that Usman Khan wanted to “die and go to paradise”, a senior security officer has told an inquest jury. An internal investigation immediately after the atrocity, in which the homegrown jihadi killed Cambridge graduates Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, and injured three other people at a prisoner education event in London on November 29 2019, found the security service could not have stopped it. T...

MI5 was considering closing its investigation into a terrorist when he launched a deadly knife rampage in London, an inquest has heard. A Security Service officer said it had “no intelligence” that Usman Khan was planning an attack, despite months of surveillance following his release from prison in 2019. The woman, who can only be named as Witness A because of an anonymity ruling, told Thursday’s hearing: “After nearly 11 months of...

A play by homegrown terrorist Usman Khan which foretold elements of his Fishmongers’ Hall atrocity did not give security services cause for concern, a senior MI5 official has said. The script, entitled Drive North, was written while 28-year-old Khan was serving eight years in prison for planning a terror training camp in his parents’ homeland of Pakistan, and was passed on to MI5 in early 2019. Khan went on to kill Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at an event by prisoner ed...

MI5 could not have prevented Fishmongers’ Hall attack, inquest told Matthew Weaver © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA A senior figure at MI5 has said the Security Service could not have prevented Usman Khan’s deadly attack at Fishmongers’ Hall in London, despite knowing that he wrote a play telling of a series of knife murders. Khan killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at a prison education event at the hall in November 2019, within a year of bein...

Fishmongers’ Hall attack inquests: Terrorist wrote play about released prisoner committing knife murders Lizzie Dearden © Provided by The Independent A terrorist wrote a play about a released prisoner who carried out a series of knife murders before carrying out his own attacks, but MI5 was “not concerned”. Usman Khan, 28, murdered two victims in a rampage at Fishmongers’ Hall in London on 29 November 2019. The attack came 11 months after he was released from prison, a...

MI5 closed investigation into Fishmongers’ Hall terrorist despite his violence in prison We cant monitor people forever, say security officers keeping watch on Usman Khan, who went on to kill two people in London Bridge attack 13 May 2021 • 6:56pm MI5 closed the investigation into Usman Khan in February 2015 because he was no longer deemed a threat to national security Credit: Metropolitan Police/PA An MI5 investigation into the Fishmongers’ Hall terrorist was closed despite him committin...

Dont show me this message again✕ Usman Khan told a counter-terrorism boss he was wearing a bulky coat, which concealed a fake suicide belt, because it was a “cold day” shortly before the Fishmongers’ Hall attack (Metropolitan Police/PA) MI5 was considering closing its investigation into a terrorist when he launched a deadly knife rampage in London, an inquest has heard. A Security Service officer said it had “no intelligence” that Usman Khan was planning an attack, despite months o...

BBC News Published image captionSaskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by Usman Khan at the conference on offender rehabilitation The UKs top intelligence agency did not consider a convicted terrorist a risk, an inquest court has heard. Usman Khan was jailed for a terror offence in 2012 before being released on licence six years later. He went on to kill Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt in a knife attack at Londons Fishmongers Hall. MI5 told the hearing it had been considering whether to close ...

Dont show me this message again✕ Usman Khan murdered two people in a terrorist rampage at Fishmongers’ Hall in November 2019 (PA) A terrorist wrote a play about a released prisoner who carried out a series of knife murders before carrying out his own attacks, but MI5 was “not concerned”. Usman Khan, 28, murdered two victims in a rampage at Fishmongers’ Hall in London on 29 November 2019. The attack came 11 months after he was released from prison, after serving a sentence for plannin...