London attack: Killer Khalid Masood escaped from MI5's radar

March 24, 2017 08:06

The terrorist who murdered four people in Westminster was investigated by MI5 for violent extremism but was ruled out as a threat by security services before being re-radicalised.

Khalid Masood, 52, was named by Scotland Yard as the Islamic State-inspired extremist who was shot dead inside the gates of Parliament on Wednesday, as eight suspected associates were arrested in raids in London and Birmingham. Last night it emerged that Masood was born Adrian Elms and is thought to have been radicalised in prison.

Nearly 20 years ago he was jailed for slashing a man across the face in an argument which had "racial overtones" in 2000.

He was charged in 2003 with grievous bodily harm, when aged 39, after being accused of stabbing a 22-year-old man in the nose in an incident in Eastbourne. The victim was left with serious facial injuries and needing cosmetic surgery. Elms, who was living in the Sussex seaside town at the time, was also facing two charges of possessing an offensive weapon, namely a knife and a baton, and is understood to have been jailed for the offences.

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