Posted on 06/10/2021 9:42:15 AM PDT by RandFan
A convicted terrorist who was shot by police following the Fishmongers' Hall attack was lawfully killed, an inquest jury has found.
Usman Khan fatally stabbed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones during a prisoner rehabilitation conference at the London venue on 29 November 2019.
He was chased from the hall on to London Bridge by three men, before being shot at 20 times by armed police.
The inquest heard police feared Khan might detonate a suicide belt.
Six police officers from the Met and City of London fired 20 times at Khan, including 18 shots in a 90-second period.
They had been sanctioned to carry out a so-called "critical shot" amid fears he was about to detonate his device. It turned out to be a fake.
Twelve of the 20 bullets hit Khan. A forensic pathologist gave the cause of death as haemorrhage due to multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen.
The post-mortem examination also showed several other injuries, including from a narwhal tusk taken from the wall of Fishmongers' Hall by those who tried to thwart Khan.
One tusk jab had nearly killed him, passing within a centimetre of the carotid artery and jugular vein, the inquest heard.
The first team of firearms officers from the City of London Police had arrived seconds after Khan was pursued out of Fishmongers' Hall to find a mêlée on London Bridge. As they tried to take control of Khan, he said to one of them: "I've got a bomb."
The officer - named only as YX99 in the inquest to protect his identity - then realised Khan had some sort of belt with wires around his waist. As soon as he could do so safely, he opened fire twice.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Was the narwhal tusk confiscated by the police?
So he got ventilated. Good. Next story.
Yeah, but did the guy with the Narwhal tusk get an award?
When narwhal tusks are illegal, only criminals will have narwhal tusks.
CC
Murdered 2 people and someone was upset that he was killed?
They used to hang traitors’ bodies from the tower of London or put their head on a spike.
Why was a "convicted terrorist" free on the streets in the first place???
>>during a prisoner rehabilitation conference
Didn’t work
When narwhal tusks are outlawed, only outlaws will have narwhal tusks.
No one is upset?
The big failing lies with the courts:
******
Khan had been released 11 months before the killings despite being viewed as an “influential” inmate who mixed with high-profile terrorists.
A Court of Appeal ruling meant Khan, from Stafford, had to be automatically released on licence from prison, with the Parole Board having no say as to whether he was safe to be freed.
Upon his release, Khan was assessed as being more dangerous than when he went into prison, and there was seen to be an imminent risk of him causing serious harm to the public.
**
Absolutely crazy. Those judges have blood on their hands. I think the law on automatic release has been changed now
Yes. Queen’s Gallantry Medal.
Usman Kahn? Sounds guilty enough to me
a prisoner rehabilitation conference
I went to the Fishmongers’ Ball in Fishmongers’ Hall,
behind the Fishmonger’s stall where Fishmongers squall
“It’s just part of living in a big city…”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.