According to report Jurors concluded on Thursday that Khan had been lawfully killed by anonymous police officers following a two-week inquest at the City of London's Guildhall, half a mile from where he died.
Usman Khan,
the Fishmongers' Hall terrorist, was lawfully killed by armed police who
believed he was attempting to set off a suicide vest, an inquest jury has
concluded, Talktokemi reported.
The
28-year-old jihadist, who murdered two Cambridge University graduates, was
gunned down by officers on London Bridge in November 2019.
The inquest
heard how six police officers from the Met and City of London fired 20 times at
Khan after being sanctioned to carry out a so-called "critical shot".
The officers
had believed that Khan, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was about to
trigger the explosive device and cause mass casualties.
Twelve of the
20 bullets hit Khan, and a forensic pathologist gave the cause of death as
haemorrhage due to multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen.
They were
directed to return a short form conclusion of lawful killing by coroner Mark
Lucraft QC on the ground that each of the officers who shot Khan believed it
was necessary to do so to protect themselves and others.
In a longer,
narrative conclusion, the jury said that when they shot Khan dead, the officers
"believed he was trying to find a trigger" on a suicide vest, and
that when they opened fire, they feared Khan was moving "to detonate the
device".
Khan had been
released from prison the previous year, having been jailed for plotting a
terror attack.
After being
invited to attend the Learning Together education event at Fishmongers' Hall,
he stabbed to death volunteers, Saskia Jones, 23, and 25-year-old Jack Merritt.
After
stabbing the pair, Khan was chased from Fishmongers' Hall, by members of the
public who tried to incapacitate him - striking him with a chair, a fire
extinguisher and even a narwhal tusk grabbed from the walls of the venue.
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