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A police officer who monitored Fishmongers’ Hall attacker Usman Khan after he was released from prison has told a jury she was “shocked” by how friendly he was. Constable Victoria Barker, from the counter-terrorism Prevent team with Staffordshire Police, said she had expected Khan to be aggressive and anti-authority but he was “the complete opposite”. She met Khan three days after his release from prison in 2018, after he served eight years for his part in a plot to set up a terrorist...

He was one of Khan’s original co-defendants and associates in a Stoke-based cell of Islamist extremists. Sergeant Calum Forsyth, one of the Staffordshire Police Prevent officers who managed Khan, acknowledged that the Rahman case had “not gone well” on Tuesday. The hearing was shown a risk assessment completed on 6 November 2019, around three weeks before Khan’s deadly rampage, finding no terrorist intent, weak terrorist engagement and moderate capability. Sgt Forsyth defended his ratin...

Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up Photo shown at the inquest The decision to let a convicted terrorist attend a prisoner education event in central London where he killed two Cambridge graduates should not have been the decision of a lone probation officer, an inquest jury was told. Sonia Flynn, the executive director of the probation service, said homegrown jihadi Usman Khan’s visit to the Learning Together celebration at Fishmongers’ Hall in November 2019 should have been subject...

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The decision to let a convicted terrorist attend a prisoner education event in central London where he killed two Cambridge graduates should not have been the decision of a lone probation officer, an inquest jury was told. Sonia Flynn, the executive director of the probation service, said homegrown jihadi Usman Khan’s visit to the Learning Together celebration at Fishmongers’ Hall in November 2019 should have been subject to a risk assessment. Khan had been released as a category A high-ris...

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BBC News Published image copyrightMet Police image captionSaskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, were killed by Usman Khan during a conference on rehabilitating offenders The brother of Fishmongers Hall attacker Usman Khan has apologised to the families of those who were killed by the terrorist in November 2019. Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed at a prisoner education event in central London. An inquest heard staff at HMP Whitemoor suspected Khan was "pr...

Prison made terrorist ‘greater risk’ to public, psychologist warned before Fishmongers’ Hall attack Lizzie Dearden © Provided by The Independent A psychologist warned that prison had made a terrorist a greater risk to the public than when he was first jailed, an inquest has heard. Usman Khan launched a deadly rampage at Fishmongers’ Hall in London in November 2019, 11 months after he was automatically released from jail. He had been in prison since 2010 for preparing a...

BBC News Published image captionSaskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by Usman Khan at the conference on offender rehabilitation The probation officer for the Fishmongers Hall attacker did not know MI5 were investigating the recently released terrorist, a court heard. Usman Khan, 28, killed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at a prisoner education event at the London venue in November 2019. MI5 had upgraded Khans potential risk when he left prison, a jury heard. Ken Skelton told an inquest that...