Why was Usman Khan free to kill?

Police have named the London Bridge attacker as Usman Khan, who was previously jailed for his part in a plot to bomb the city’s stock exchange.

28 year old Khan was out on licence from prison when he murdered two people and injured three others in the stabbing attack on Friday, before he was shot dead by armed police.

He had been living in Stafford since being released from prison on licence last December, the BBC has been told.

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

This sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term. He was born and raised in Stoke on Trent and is therefore not a foreign national.

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.

The group of nine had been engaged in several plans, one of which involved a plot to put a pipe bomb in the London Stock Exchange and they were under constant surveillance by Mi5.

Khan and other plotters from Stoke had also been heard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in toilets in pubs and clubs in the Stoke area.

At one point Khan was monitored in conversation about “how to construct a pipe bomb” from a recipe in an al-Qaeda magazine.

The court of appeal judgement said: “The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities including fundraising for the establishment of a military training madrassa in Pakistan, where they would undertake training themselves and recruit others to do likewise, sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist groups, attacking a high profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack.”

It added that they had “serious long term plans” to send Khan and other recruits for “training and terrorist experience”.

“Should they return to the UK they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism,” the judgement continued.

“They engaged with the others who were contemplating short term attacks in the UK but rightly considered themselves to be more serious jihadis than the others.”

 

Opinion- Major questions must be ask of The Police, The Judiciary and ultimately The Conservative Government. Why was this individual out on release and why do we continue with soft touch policing? Why does the mainstream media keep pushing an agenda that ‘far-right’ terrorism is our biggest threat when Islamic extremism is by far and away the largest? Major questions have to be asked here, will they ever be answered?