London Bridge attacker ‘had links to Anjem Choudary’ – latest updates
Counter-terror expert says UK playing ‘Russian roulette’ with public as attacker had recently been released from jail
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The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, is at London Bridge. He said: “Yesterday we saw ordinary people acting in extraordinary ways.”
ITV News has a letter written by the attacker from jail, asking to take part in a deradicalisation course. He wrote:
I would like to do such a course so I can prove to the authorities, my family and soicity (sic) in general that I don’t carry the views I had before my arrest and also I can prove that at the time I was immature, and now I am much more mature and want to live my life as a good Muslim and also a good citizen of Britain.