On Tuesday 14th April, a convicted terrorist told a prisoner rehabilitation conference that he was a reformed character who had turned away from the “wrong path” just minutes before killing two people in a knife attack.
28-year-old Usman Khan, participated in a session on individual “turning points” at London’s Fishmongers’ Hall in the hour before the fateful attack in November 2019.
Catherine Jaquiss sat next to Khan at an event marking 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. I remember him saying … that he had been involved with a group of people who had been leading him down the wrong path. He had now seen that way was wrong. And he was now essentially turning the other way, or going a different way.”
Khan had been released on licence in 2018 after spending eight years in prison for terrorism offences.
