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A prison governor has defended allowing the terrorist Usman Khan to take part in a Learning Together education programme before his deadly attack at Fishmongersâ Hall in London.
William Styles, who was governor for most of Khanâs time at the jail for terrorist offences, told an inquest that months before Khan killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at a prisoner education event run by Learning Together in November 2019, he had thought Khan was âa success storyâ of the programme.
At an inquest into their deaths, Nick Armstrong, representing Merrittâs family, accused Styles of issuing âgiddyâ endorsements of Learning Together and neglecting his duty to remind the organisation of the dangers posed by Khan.
Fishmongers Hall terrorist Usman Khan used cocaine and heroin months before the attack which saw him kill two people, an inquest heard.
Usman Khan stabbed Cambridge University project workers Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a prison rehabilitation conference at the venue on November 29, 2019.
Toxicology expert Dr Vincent Cirimele said there was evidence that Khan had been exposed to cocaine and heroin between late August/early September and November 2019.
He said the concentration of both drugs was low, indicating either occasional or unique use.
Usman Khan during a thank-you message for a Learning Together event in Cambridge in 2019
Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were killed at Fishmongers Hall on November 29, 2019
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Usman Khan at Bank station on his way to Fishmongers’ Hall on 29 November 2019 (Metropolitan Police)
A terrorist was made a “peer mentor” to fellow inmates in a high-security jail despite intelligence he was radicalising prisoners and potentially planning an attack, an inquest has heard.
Usman Khan was serving a sentence for preparing acts of terrorism at HMP Whitemoor when he was allowed to join Cambridge University’s Learning Together education programme in 2017.
Two years later he launched a terror attack, murdering two people at an alumni event held at Fishmongers’ Hall in London.
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