Terrorist told conference he had turned from ‘wrong path’

London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan told a prisoner rehabilitation conference that he was a reformed character who had turned away from the ‘wrong path’, just minutes prior to killing two people in a knife attack.

The 28-year-old  took part in a breakout session on individual ‘turning points’ at London’s Fishmongers’ Hall in the hour before his deadly attack in November 2019, the barrister Catherine Jaquiss told the inquest jury into the attack.

Jaquiss said how she sat next to Khan after inviting him to join her group at a table in the building’s banqueting hall at an event to mark the fifth anniversary of Learning Together, an educational rehabilitation initiative run by the University of Cambridge.

She told the inquest: “I turned behind me to a person who I now know to be Usman Khan and asked him to join our table. We were asked to contemplate occasions upon which we made a choice which led us in one direction or another.”

She went on to say that Khan told the group that he had been involved with a group of people who had been leading him down the wrong path and that he had now seen that way was wrong.