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Usman Khan murdered two people in a terrorist rampage at Fishmongers’ Hall in November 2019 (PA)
A terrorist wrote a play about a released prisoner who carried out a series of knife murders before carrying out his own attacks, but MI5 was “not concerned”.
Usman Khan, 28, murdered two victims in a rampage at Fishmongers’ Hall in London on 29 November 2019.
The attack came 11 months after he was released from prison, after serving a sentence for planning to set up a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
Inquests into his victims’ deaths heard that he had been known to MI5 since 2008 as an Islamist extremist, and the Security Service started investigating him again in prison and then a third time shortly before his release in December 2018.
He was one of Khan’s original co-defendants and associates in a Stoke-based cell of Islamist extremists.
Sergeant Calum Forsyth, one of the Staffordshire Police Prevent officers who managed Khan, acknowledged that the Rahman case had “not gone well” on Tuesday.
The hearing was shown a risk assessment completed on 6 November 2019, around three weeks before Khan’s deadly rampage, finding no terrorist intent, weak terrorist engagement and moderate capability.
Sgt Forsyth defended his ratings and said that probation officers carried out more detailed risk assessments.
“At the time with what I was assessing and what I was seeing it felt right,” he added.
First published on Thu 29 Apr 2021 08.08 EDT
A prison counter-terrorism expert has admitted to an inquest that he failed to pick up on warning signs about Usman Khan when he talked to him just before his deadly terror attack at Fishmongersâ Hall in London.
Steve Machin, the head of counter-terrorism at Whitemoor prison, where Khan had been held 11 months before his attack, said he was not in a work âheadspaceâ when he chatted to Khan at a prison education event in the hall, hosted by Cambridge Universityâs Learning Together organisation.
A few hours later Khan stabbed to death Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones.