London attacks review

Police have identified the London terror attacker as Khalid Masood, age 52, born in Kent on a Christmas Day, 1964. Prior to the Wednesday attacks, he had lived in the West Midlands where he is believed to have nursed his attack. Prior to his conversion to Islam, Khalid Masood was previously known as Adrian Russel Ajao. Seemingly, his names were entered as Adrian Russel Elms at the Dartford District of Kent onto the birth registry.

Father of three, Khalid had been reported to have used a good number of aliases on several occasion, fitting the context of events. He his believed to have had criminal past, but his most recent before Wednesday attacks was far back in 2003, when he was convicted for possessing a Knife.

Khalid had never been convicted for terrorism offence on until his last operation which subsequently led to his death.

Masood who stayed in a hotel in Brighton night before his attack, gave his occupation as a teacher while hiring a car from a car depot in Birmingham, West Minister near the Houses of Parliament. Similarly, in an ironical twist of event, reports from the Departments For Education indicated that they have no fact record of Khalid been recruited as a qualified teacher in any of the English state schools.

Mosood who ferociously sped up his car, mounted the pavement as he indiscriminately rammed into pedestrians before he eventually crashed into the railings outside the Houses of Parliaments. The attacker armed with a Knife, ran towards the Houses of Parliament as he was subsequently shot down by an armed police officer at the scene, whose range on the attacker knew nothing but his quick death.

Khalid spent a good number of years in Saudi Arabia teaching English as a second language at the General Authority of Civil Aviation in the port city of Jeddah, BBC reports.

London has been quite cool prior to this attack, which obviously is now raising some doubts about the security situation in and around the metropolitan city.


His Victims:

The police officer who died was PC Keith Palmer, 48, of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command. He had 15 years' service, was married and had a five-year-old daughter. He had served in the Royal Artillery before joining the police.

Aysha Frade, who worked in administration at DLD College London, was killed after being hit by the attacker's car before it reached Parliament.It is thought she was 43 and a married mother of two young daughters.

A third victim was Kurt Cochran, from Utah, who was in London to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary. His wife Melissa was seriously injured.

Leslie Rhodes, a retired window cleaner, had been receiving medical treatment in hospital following the attack. His life support was withdrawn on Thursday evening.

More Facts: The attack which killed four, injured at least 50 more persons from 12 different nations with some of his casualties seriously receiving treatment as they struggle for their survival. Two people remain in a critical condition and one of them has life-threatening injuries, according to police.  

See Nationals of victims:

• 12 Britons 
• Three French children
• Two Romanians 
• Four South Koreans
• Two Greeks
• One German
• One Polish
• One Irish
• One Chinese
• One Italian 
• One U.S citizen

Among others injured were four university students from Edge Hill University, in Ormskirk, Lancashire.

More Facts:  Eleven people were arrested in the 48 hours following the attack, but seven have since been released with no further police action.Those still in custody are; a 58-year old man from Birmingham, 27-year old man also from Birmingham. 

 Properties in Birmingham and east London are still being searched, while a number of searches have concluded, including in Brighton, Surrey and Camarthenshire, Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley said.The Hyundai driven by Masood had been hired in Spring Hill, Birmingham, from a branch of Enterprise.