Fishmongers’ Hall attacker deemed ‘high risk’ year before assault

Inquest into deaths of victims of 2019 incident told intelligence concluded Usman Khan might commit an attack'

There was intelligence that Usman Khan might commit an attack" when released from prison a year before his deadly terror assault at London's Fishmongers' Hall, an inquest has heard.

Khan, a convicted terrorist who had been released on licence when he stabbed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at a prisoner rehabilitation event in November 2019, was known in prison as High Risk Khan", the inquest into their deaths was told on Thursday.