London Bridge attack: MI5 accused of 'damning list' of failures

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London Bridge attack: MI5 accused of 'damning list' of failures
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Lawyers say the Security Service 'failed to discharge their duty' to properly investigate Khuram Butt, the ringleader of the plot.

He said there was a"fairly damning list" of failings, adding:"The attack planning was going on for some time and was there to be detected, it was eminently detectable and these eight tragic deaths did not need to happen."

Butt was assessed to be a"national security threat" and the investigation was placed in the second highest priority category, meaning he was suspected of"high-risk extremist activity linked to attack planning". The CPS advised that one document in particular meant he was potentially encouraging terrorism and could be prosecuted, but in the end no action was taken.Separately, a call was made to the Anti-Terrorist Hotline in September 2015 by Khuram Butt's brother-in-law, expressing concern about his increasingly extreme views.The intelligence being received by MI5 pointed increasingly to a greater risk that Khuram Butt would attempt to travel to the Middle East, than launch an attack in the UK.

MI5 believed that the arrest looked like an"attractive potential option to disrupt him" because"if he could be successfully prosecuted, we would be in a position whereby he would clearly be off the streets and therefore no longer a threat". The inquest also heard how Rachid Redouane, a Moroccan national, was known to police for immigration offences, and Youssef Zaghba was put on a European-wide law enforcement database after trying to travel to Syria from his home country of Italy.

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