10:26 EDT, 22 April 2021
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Fishmongers Hall jihadist Usman Khan was known as High Risk Khan to workers on a prisoner rehabilitation scheme and was said to have been involved in violent incidents, bullying and serious disruption, including forced [religious] conversions inside jail, an inquest heard today.
Jurors were told that there was intelligence the terrorist, 28, might commit an attack around the time he was released from category A Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire in December 2018 - almost a year before he killed two Cambridge graduates during a knife rampage.
Counsel for the inquest Jonathan Hough QC said Khan was considered the main inmate on his wing for extremist views and the radicalisation of others before his release halfway through a 16-year sentence for plotting to set up a jihadist training camp in Pakistan for attacks against Britain.
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image captionSaskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed during a conference on rehabilitating offenders
A charity office manager has described being repeatedly stabbed during the Fishmonger s Hall terror attack.
Isobel Rowbotham told the inquest jury that she pleaded with convicted terrorist Usman Khan as he approached her on 29 November, 2019.
She had just seen Jack Merritt moments after he had been fatally wounded by Khan in the toilets. He was shouting that he d been stabbed, she told the inquest at London s Guildhall. He was holding his stomach. Obviously he d been injured. There was a lot of blood.
Ms Rowbotham described Khan as moving towards her quite fast and purposively .
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.