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Witnesses to the Fishmongers’ Hall attack have described trying to save the life of a young Cambridge graduate stabbed to death by a convicted terrorist at a prisoner education event.
Former HMP Grendon inmate Gareth Evans held Saskia Jones in his arms and told her “she was loved and she was beautiful” as she lay dying after being attacked by Usman Khan at the conference near London Bridge on November 29 2019.
He rushed to her aid after she was stabbed in the neck by Khan, who had earlier been seen chatting to her at the Learning Together anniversary event.
Prison officer Adam Roberts also described how he tried to stem the bleeding, and got Miss Jones, 23, in a protective hug, as an “aggressive” Khan, armed with two knives and wearing what appeared to be a suicide belt, stood feet away.
Witnesses to the Fishmongers’ Hall attack have described trying to save the life of a young Cambridge graduate stabbed to death by a convicted terrorist at a prisoner education event.
Former HMP Grendon inmate Gareth Evans held Saskia Jones in his arms and told her “she was loved and she was beautiful” as she lay dying after being attacked by Usman Khan at the conference near London Bridge on November 29 2019.
He rushed to her aid after she was stabbed in the neck by Khan, who had earlier been seen chatting to her at the Learning Together anniversary event.
Prison officer Adam Roberts also described how he tried to stem the bleeding, and got Miss Jones, 23, in a protective hug, as an “aggressive” Khan, armed with two knives and wearing what appeared to be a suicide belt, stood feet away.
A witness to the Fishmongers’ Hall atrocity said he initially thought armed killer Usman Khan was “play-fighting” as he launched his bloody attack, an inquest jury has heard. Convicted terrorist Khan, 28, was armed with two knives and wore a fake suicide vest as he fatally wounded Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, and injured others at the prisoner education conference they were all attending near London Bridge on November 29 2019. Marc Conway, a policy officer with the Prison Reform Trust, recalled coming face to face with a frenzied Khan. Giving evidence at Guildhall in the City of London, he said: “I could see people fighting with Usman Khan.
09:05 EDT, 19 April 2021
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A witness to the Fishmongers Hall terror attack which left two dead and three wounded said he initially thought killer Usman Khan was play fighting when he launched his murderous assault, an inquest jury has heard.
Convicted terrorist Khan, 28, was armed with two knives and wore a fake suicide vest as he stabbed Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, to death and injured three others at a prisoner rehabilitation event near London Bridge on November 29, 2019.
The killer, who was let out halfway through his 16-year sentence on licence after pretending that he had been de-radicalised, was tackled by heroic members of the public brandishing a decorative pike, narwhal tusk and fire extinguisher before he was then shot dead by police.