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Sputnik International
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.
09:52 EDT, 20 April 2021
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An electrician has described the moment he set eyes on the knife-wielding and blood drenched London Bridge attacker Usman Khan.
The inquests into the deaths of Cambridge University graduates Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, who were killed by convicted terrorist Khan at a prisoner rehabilitation event at Fishmongers Hall near London Bridge on November 29 2019, resumed today.
Khan, 28, was armed with two knives and wore a fake suicide vest as he stabbed Ms Jones and Mr Merritt to death and injured three others at a prisoner rehabilitation event near London Bridge on November 29, 2019.
Simon Bird, a maintenance electrician working at Fishmongers Hall on the day of the atrocity, said he heard Khan shouting for the front doors to be opened to escape onto London Bridge.
14:17, 20 APR 2021
Usman Khan, who killed two people and injured three others in a stabbing attack at London Bridge
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A survivor of the Fishmongers Hall terror attack has told how Usman Khan was expressionless as he carried out his brutal stabbings.
Stephanie Szczotko suffered wounds to her arms and torso during the attack in central London on November 29 2019. Khan, aged 28, armed himself with knives and a fake suicide vest before unleashing horror on delegates at a prisoner rehabilitation event.
Doctor recalls ‘urgency on the face of police’ at Fishmongers’ Hall attack 20/04/2021, 12:06 pm
A view of the Old Library in Guildhall, London, where the inquest into the terror attack at Fishmongers’ Hall is being held (PA)
An emergency doctor called to the Fishmongers’ Hall attack described arriving at the scene to see “urgency on the face and in the voice” of armed police.
Dr Samy Sadek said he was confronted by “lots of noise… and lots and lots of blood” when he raced to London Bridge after convicted terrorist Usman Khan fatally stabbed Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a prisoner rehabilitation event on November 29 2019, while others were injured.