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image captionSaskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by Usman Khan at the conference on offender rehabilitation
A police officer who monitored the Fishmongers Hall attacker felt daunted by a decision that required his team to watch over convicted terrorists, an inquest has heard.
Sgt Calum Forsyth led the Staffordshire Police team that stayed in touch with Usman Khan after his release from prison in 2018.
Khan, 28, was the second convicted terrorist his team had monitored.
He went on to kill Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones 11 months later in London.
Sgt Forsyth said his team of four Prevent officers, whose job was to steer people away from terrorist activity, were told in 2015 they would manage convicted terrorist offenders in the community.
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.
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A police officer tasked with monitoring terrorists - including Stoke-on-Trent killer Usman Khan - said he felt daunted by the decision to hand responsibility to his team, an inquest jury heard.
Staffordshire Police sergeant Calum Forsyth said his team of four Prevent officers, whose job was to steer people away from terrorist activity, were told in 2015 that they would begin having a role in managing convicted terrorist offenders in the community - something previously done by the much larger team at West Midlands Police.