A survivor of the Fishmongers’ Hall terror attack has told how she “played dead” after Usman Khan stabbed her repeatedly and tried to “finish” her.
Convicted terrorist Khan, 28, killed Cambridge University graduates Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, on the afternoon of November 29 2019.
He injured three more people during a five-minute rampage at a Learning Together event before being shot dead by police on London Bridge.
Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed in the attack (Metropolitan Police/PA)
Isobel Rowbotham worked part-time as an office manager for Learning Together, an organisation dedicated to the education of prisoners.
Giving evidence at Guildhall in the City of London, Ms Rowbotham, a student at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, said she had been in the foyer when Mr Merritt emerged covered in blood.
09:19 EDT, 14 April 2021
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A graduate who was stabbed by the Fishmonger s Hall terror attacker at a prisoner rehabilitation event told the inquest today how she pleaded No Usman, please then played dead after he thought he had finished her.
Isobel Rowbotham, in her 20s, was one of three people seriously injured when she was knifed in the arm by Usman Khan during a rampage in the City near London Bridge that left two others dead on November 29, 2019.
Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were killed by Khan - who was secretly armed with three knives and a fake suicide vest - before he was chased onto London Bridge by other attendees.