Cambridge College has scrapped its jail rehabilitation programme after a convicted terrorist went on a bloody rampage in London.
Freed terrorist Usman Khan, 28, satisfied employees on the Studying Collectively programme he was a reformed character earlier than killing two graduates.
Khan, carrying a pretend suicide vest with kitchen knives strapped to his palms, stabbed rehab employee Jack Merritt, 25, and volunteer Saskia Jones, 23, at an occasion at Fishmonger’s Corridor to mark the scheme’s fifth anniversary. He then ran on to London Bridge the place he was shot useless by police on November 29, 2019.
Terrorist Usman Khan murdered rehab employee Jack Merritt, 25, and volunteer Saskia Jones, 23, at an occasion at Fishmonger’s Corridor in London on November 29, 2019
Jack Merritt, 25, left, and Saskia Jones, 23, died after they have been each stabbed by Khan, who was later shot useless by police as he was carrying a pretend suicide vest
Khan had been launched on licence from jail 11 months earlier after serving half of a 16-year sentence for being a part of a terror cell plotting to explode the London Inventory Change.
An inquest highlighted how employees noticed him as a ‘poster boy’ for the rehab programme after he took half in programs whereas serving his sentence at high-security Whitemoor jail. He had even featured in a promotional video.
The inquest jury concluded that this had performed a component within the ‘collective failure’ to cease him attending the occasion, or to go looking his bag, which contained the knives he used within the assault.
Following criticism from the coroner, Cambridge College responded yesterday: ‘There now must be a “clear cease” to the supply of the Studying Collectively programme. The programme is due to this fact at an finish.’
It mentioned any future contact between college students and offenders could be intently supervised by the college’s Institute of Criminology.
Studying Collectively mentioned the scheme could be ‘dissolved’ and its co-directors Drs Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong had reiterated their ‘profound grief’ and ‘deep and ongoing trauma’.