The assailant on the London Bridge was sentenced in 2012 for a terrorist act

(PTI) London, Ta. November 30, 2019, Saturday

The terrorist who killed two people with a knife at a London historic bridge has been identified on Friday. The terrorist Usman Khan is a British citizen, who was accused of plotting a bomb blast on the London Stock Exchange, attacking the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, the Mumbai parliament, and launching his family's house in Kashmir in 2012 to exchange Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. General Chat Chat Lounge

In sentencing for terrorism offenses in 2012, the judge found it to be a threat to people with a long-standing involvement in terrorism. Usman Khan, who was released on parole, was attacked and stabbed to death by a knife near a historic bridge in London on Friday, killing two men and injuring three others.

However, he was shot dead by police officers. "We have confirmed the identity of 28-year-old Usman Khan," Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, chief of counter-terrorism policing in Scotland Yard, said on Saturday. He lived in the Staffordshire area. Authorities identified the British citizen of Pakistani origin with authority.

He was arrested by the police in 2010. He was sentenced in 2012 for terrorism offenses. He was released on a license in December 2018. However, how he carried out the attack will now be investigated, ”said a top Indian-origin police officer.

Usman Khan spent this time in Pakistan when his mother was ill when he was a teenager. From there he came to Britain and started promoting fanaticism on the Internet. He was associated with Islamic terrorism. It was also believed to be involved with terrorist organizations al-Qaeda and IS.

He was accused of plotting terrorist encampments on his family's land in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, assassination of Boris Johnson, the mayor of London in 2012, and plotting an attack on the UK Parliament in Mumbai style. He was 20 when he was sentenced.

Usman Khan was sentenced to an indefinite period of imprisonment to remove the threat from the public, but this provision was later dropped in the UK Court of Appeal in April 2013. He was then sentenced to 16 years in prison,

In which he was sentenced to at least eight years rigorous imprisonment before being released on parole. He was released on license orthopedic payroll in December last year and claimed to have been monitored via electronic tag.