Hello and welcome to bbc news. Good evening. Its been confirmed that a man who stabbed two people to death in Central London was a former terrorist prisoner who was out on parole. The attacker was later shot dead. Several members of the public managed to wrestle him to ground, and their bravery has been widely praised. Three people were seriously hurt in the incident which happened just before 2 00 local time on friday afternoon. Police say they were called to an incident at a building near London Bridge after reports of a stabbing. Shortly afterwards, eyewitnesses filmed members of the public as they cornered a man carrying a knife, on the north side of the bridge, and pinned him to the ground. Armed Police Arrived within minutes and shot him. He appeared to be wearing an explosive device which turned out to be fake. The man died at the scene. Police are now trying to find out whether anyone else was involved in the attack. This report from our correspondent, daniel sandford. Once aga
To death and injured three others. He has been named as usman khan philipe was from staffordshire to hearin philipe was from staffordshire to hear in the uk. What is interesting is he was a convicted terrorist. He was jailed back in 2012 and part of a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and he was also plotting, according to the court, to set up as terrorist Training Camp in pakistan with the view of sending people from britain over there to be changed in that make trading terrorism. He was released in december he was released on licence which means he should have been under watch and police are acknowledging the main line of how he was able to carry out this attack. It took place in fishmongers hall which is on the north side of the bridge of London Bridge. There was an event taking place and there seems to be some reports that he could have been an attendee there. I suppose, maybe we dont know the answers to those questions but we definitely know what questions are being asked. Ar
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And now a former anticorruption investigator who was dismissed from his post after speaking out says hes received death threats. Our reporter has had the opportunity to meet with him. Reporter Jonathan Ferris is on his way to speak before a delegation of members of the european parliament. He wants to express his concern about whats happening in malta. Jonathan in malta nowadays, how it came to be is that there are two types of laws. Like, laws for gods, and laws for the common mortals. Reporter until her murder, journalist Daphne Caruana galizia exposed organized crime and corruption in her popular blog. She accused konrad mizzi, a minister, and keith schembri, the chief of staff to the Prime Minister, of establishing offshore shell companies. She used information leaked in the panama papers. Suspicious payments were made to both politicians allegedly, bribes. Caruana galizia also claimed that michelle muscat, wife of maltese Prime Minister joseph muscat, created an offshore Company C