London Bridge attacker in 2008: ‘I ain’t no terrorist’

November 30, 2019   

(BBC) Speaking to the BBC in 2008 the man who carried out Friday’s London Bridge attack denied being a terrorist.

Usman Khan was speaking after his address was raided by anti-terror police in 2008. He later admitted being involved in a terrorist conspiracy.

In 2012 he was sentenced to indeterminate detention for “public protection” with a minimum jail term of eight years.

But in 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year fixed term of which Khan should serve half in prison.

He was released in December 2018.

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