Council chiefs to remove Stoke-on-Trent terrorist’s name from London Bridge attack report
One member argued including Usman Khan’s name played into hands of far-right extremists
The name of a Staffordshire terrorist who killed two people in the London Bridge attacks is to be removed from a council report over concerns including it could play into the hands of far right extremists.
Usman Khan, from Stoke-on-Trent, was responsible for the attack at Fishmongers Hall in 2019. At an event to help ex-offenders, he fatally wounded Prisoner Education Scheme volunteers Saskia Jones, 23, and 25-year-old Jack Merritt, before being shot dead by police.
But at a meeting of Staffordshire county council’s Safeguarding Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Monday, which was receiving the chief coroner’s report outlining how future deaths could be prevented following the inquests of Khan’s two victims, debate focused on the inclusion of Khan’s name in the report.
