:00:12. > :00:22.Five days ago, terror came here, to the heart of London, killing and
:00:23. > :00:25.maiming indiscriminately. There is a breaking news story over at
:00:26. > :00:30.Westminster Palace. We are getting reports of an incident outside the
:00:31. > :00:34.Palace of Westminster. Breaking news, there are reports of gunshots
:00:35. > :00:39.being heard outside the Houses of Parliament. At 2.39 last Wednesday
:00:40. > :00:43.afternoon, Khalid Masood was seemingly just another London
:00:44. > :00:49.motorist. Seconds later, he was a killer, driving his rented car onto
:00:50. > :00:55.the pavement, ploughing into pedestrians on one of London's
:00:56. > :01:06.busiest bridges. A tour guide, Adrian Istoria, saw it all. There
:01:07. > :01:08.was screaming, like you never thought you would hear that, or
:01:09. > :01:15.never prepared to see something like that. Those kind of expressions,
:01:16. > :01:21.like, Jesus, help us, those expressions. Everything covered with
:01:22. > :01:34.screaming and crying. He has mown down about three people
:01:35. > :01:39.on Westminster Bridge. American tourists Kurt and Melissa Cochran
:01:40. > :01:44.with the first to be hit. They were in London celebrating their 25th
:01:45. > :01:51.wedding anniversary. A second later, a CCTV camera filmed Masood
:01:52. > :02:02.continuing to career along the pavement at speed. Did you see the
:02:03. > :02:08.car hit anybody? Yes, I did. The impact of Masood's car hurled
:02:09. > :02:15.29-year-old Andreea Cristea into the River Thames. The Romanian architect
:02:16. > :02:21.was later rescued, but suffered serious head injuries. The car
:02:22. > :02:28.ploughed on, through the people on the bridge. I saw my first friend in
:02:29. > :02:33.front, he left out of the way. Then I saw this black shape coming
:02:34. > :02:38.towards me. I thought, that's a car. I felt sharp pain on my head.
:02:39. > :02:43.18-year-old politics student Owen Lambert had just left the House of
:02:44. > :02:46.Commons after a tour and was sightseeing on the bridge with
:02:47. > :02:52.friends. I was spun around, then I was on the floor, on top of my
:02:53. > :02:57.friend. I saw blood on his neck. I said to him, you are bleeding. He
:02:58. > :03:01.gestured to me, he looked at me. He said... Well, he didn't say
:03:02. > :03:06.anything, he looked at me, I put my hand to my head and realised it
:03:07. > :03:09.wasn't his blood, it was mine. When he reaches the security barriers at
:03:10. > :03:14.the end of the bridge, Masood is forced back onto the road. Driving
:03:15. > :03:17.around those security barriers, Masood then aims his car at a more
:03:18. > :03:30.pedestrians by the railings, round Parliament. Then he smashes into
:03:31. > :03:35.them. In this moment, you go numb. I thought, when is this going to stop
:03:36. > :03:40.now? It is becoming clear to those around that something is badly
:03:41. > :03:45.wrong. At ease traffic lights, Carl might is listening to music on his
:03:46. > :03:52.headphones, on the top of a number 159 bus, when he hears a bang. --
:03:53. > :03:56.Carl Knight. It sounded like a really loud backfire of a car. That
:03:57. > :04:00.is the best way I could describe it. I thought, what the hell? That is
:04:01. > :04:04.when I turned around to see this car, and the front end of it was
:04:05. > :04:13.completely crushed in. Then I saw two bodies on the floor. Mon dieu!
:04:14. > :04:20.My God! He then saw Khalid Masood get out of the smashed a car. He
:04:21. > :04:31.opens the door, he stands up, dazed, a little bit unsteady on his feet,
:04:32. > :04:35.looking around. Carl Knight was still watching from the top of the
:04:36. > :04:39.number 159 bus. He said Masood, after crashing his hire car, armed
:04:40. > :04:45.with two knives, moved towards a woman with a child against the
:04:46. > :04:52.railings here. She screamed at the knifeman not to hurt them. You know
:04:53. > :04:56.what, you can tell a mother's love for a child in that moment. She
:04:57. > :05:02.wrapped itself around this child, as if to protect it. Masood then
:05:03. > :05:07.started moving around this corner, towards the eastern entrance to the
:05:08. > :05:12.Palace of Westminster. At that point, he began gathering pace. He
:05:13. > :05:19.went from jogging to charging. There was a person that he pushed out of
:05:20. > :05:26.the way. He could have used the knife, but he didn't. He pushed. His
:05:27. > :05:30.view was briefly obscured. But Daily Mail journalist Quentin Letts saw
:05:31. > :05:34.what happened next from his office window, overlooking the yard in
:05:35. > :05:40.front of Big Ben. We saw members of the public, pedestrians in the
:05:41. > :05:44.street, running in apparent terror, screaming, away from some source of
:05:45. > :05:52.violence. A second later, I saw the source of violence, a thickset man
:05:53. > :05:56.in dark clothes. He was running towards a police officer in a
:05:57. > :06:04.high-vis jacket. You could see him stabbing the police officer. He done
:06:05. > :06:13.it about five times. That police officer was PC Keith Palmer. That
:06:14. > :06:16.lasted all of one and a half seconds, I would say. It was very
:06:17. > :06:22.quick. It was a violent, deranged movement. The police officer got off
:06:23. > :06:25.his knees and ran to the other side, as if he was going around the
:06:26. > :06:34.roundabout, that way. The attacker followed. Of the police appeared,
:06:35. > :06:38.including two plainclothed figures. They issued a challenge of some
:06:39. > :06:43.sort. I couldn't hear what it was, but I could hear that they shouted
:06:44. > :06:48.at the man. He ignored them and kept walking, or running towards them.
:06:49. > :06:57.Then you heard two shots and then another one afterwards. It was like
:06:58. > :07:00.pop, pop, pop. Masood was fatally wounded, shot, it is believed, by
:07:01. > :07:07.two members of the ministerial security unit. It had been just 82
:07:08. > :07:15.seconds from his car first mounting the pavement on Westminster Bridge
:07:16. > :07:23.to him being shot. Near to Masood laid PC Palmer, an officer with 15
:07:24. > :07:26.years experience. You don't expect gunshots in Westminster. I looked up
:07:27. > :07:29.to see what had happened and realised there were two people on
:07:30. > :07:38.the floor and a handful of policeman around them. Former Army captain and
:07:39. > :07:41.Afghanistan veteran Mike Crofts, in Parliament for a meeting, now
:07:42. > :07:46.emerged from behind a car, where he was taking cover. He rushed over to
:07:47. > :07:52.help PC Palmer. I tried to assess his wounds as best as possible. I'm
:07:53. > :07:58.not a doctor. I looked back towards the Palace of Westminster and
:07:59. > :08:02.screamed for a medic. He was joined shortly after by police, security
:08:03. > :08:08.guards and Bournemouth MP Tobias Ellwood, himself a former Army
:08:09. > :08:11.officer. He brought with him a good sense of calm. Immediately we
:08:12. > :08:17.started to work on PC Palmer together to try to help him. You
:08:18. > :08:22.were trying to resuscitating? Yes. Medics also worked to save Masood.
:08:23. > :08:31.Nothing could be done for either of the men. Unfortunately, PC Palmer
:08:32. > :08:36.died, despite our best efforts. He sacrificed himself for everyone
:08:37. > :08:43.else. Less than an hour before the attacks, PC Palmer had been posing
:08:44. > :08:50.for tourist pictures. Moments later, he was defending Parliament from a
:08:51. > :08:54.terror attack. He really was heroic. Being a barrier between himself and
:08:55. > :08:57.Parliament. There were a large number of people exiting Parliament
:08:58. > :09:01.at that time. It frightens me to think what would have happened if
:09:02. > :09:06.the attacker had got into the crowd. Over on the bridge, the scene was
:09:07. > :09:14.one of horror. Owen Lambert was lucky. He had a minor head injury
:09:15. > :09:17.and bruised leg. I looked down the bridge towards where the car had
:09:18. > :09:22.come from. There were people lying down, people in the road, cars had
:09:23. > :09:27.stopped. There was lots of debris everywhere, blood, lots of blood.
:09:28. > :09:35.About 50 people had been hit by Masood's Park. Some had catastrophic
:09:36. > :09:42.injuries. Kurt Cochran, the American tourist, died. His wife, Melissa,
:09:43. > :09:47.survived. Aysha Frade, a mother on her way to pick up two children from
:09:48. > :09:56.school, was killed. 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes was the oldest to die.
:09:57. > :10:01.In the House of Commons, MPs were completely unaware of the terror
:10:02. > :10:08.unfolding outside. That soon changed. Parliament went into
:10:09. > :10:12.lockdown. Order. I am now going to suspend the sitting of the house.
:10:13. > :10:18.This house is now suspended, but please wait here. Prime Minister
:10:19. > :10:24.Theresa May was in the voting lobby. MP Andrew Bridgen was just feet away
:10:25. > :10:31.when he saw plainclothed police officers approach her. I heard her
:10:32. > :10:38.say, oh, he put his arm around her and very rapidly guided her out of
:10:39. > :10:40.the back of the chamber and away. The Prime Minister was taken to her
:10:41. > :10:48.armoured car in the speaker's courtyard. Everybody was looking out
:10:49. > :10:54.the windows. You could see two plainclothes bodyguards with
:10:55. > :10:58.automatic weapons, standing either side of the archway in speakers
:10:59. > :11:06.courtyard, covering while the Prime Minister got into her car.
:11:07. > :11:17.So, how did a polite schoolboy who loved sport and music turn into a
:11:18. > :11:22.killer? Khalid Masood was born in Dartford in Kent on Christmas Day
:11:23. > :11:36.1964. The name on his birth certificate, Adrian Russell Elms. As
:11:37. > :11:40.a teenager, he called himself Adrian Ajoa as well, taking his
:11:41. > :11:42.stepfather's name. By the early 90s, he was living a seemingly
:11:43. > :11:47.middle-class life in the Home Counties with his then partner, Jane
:11:48. > :11:51.Harvey. The couple worked alongside each other in a rental property
:11:52. > :11:54.owned by the Eastwood family. I didn't have a long conversation with
:11:55. > :11:57.him. It was apparent that the meeting that she was the leading
:11:58. > :12:03.person within the business and that he was more there to support her in
:12:04. > :12:10.the physical side of lifting and moving objects around. I met him 15
:12:11. > :12:15.years ago. Seemed to me he was quite tall and physically well built.
:12:16. > :12:23.Almost quite normal, in a way. He didn't seem aggressive or anything,
:12:24. > :12:29.until he obviously knifed our local landlord. One minute he's cool, the
:12:30. > :12:40.next minute he is violent, you know? He was like Jekyll and bloody Hyde.
:12:41. > :12:44.Incredible fella. Fred Lawrence was with Adie, as he called him, when,
:12:45. > :12:52.aged 36, Masood slashed a landlord's face with a knife in a pub car park
:12:53. > :12:58.in East Sussex. He drew his knife out, he went for him, cut his face
:12:59. > :13:03.and my son grabbed him. My son is big, luckily, to be honest with you,
:13:04. > :13:08.think you would have done him. I saw him, and he had the knife. I was
:13:09. > :13:12.walking towards him and thought, he's in a completely different frame
:13:13. > :13:17.of mind. It was a completely different person, it was an animal.
:13:18. > :13:24.The landlord needed 20 stitches and Masood got nearly three years in
:13:25. > :13:31.prison. Jay loved him to bits and stuck up for him so many times, she
:13:32. > :13:36.always tried to stick up for him. She wanted to help them. But the
:13:37. > :13:40.couple, who had two daughters, split up after Masood was jailed for the
:13:41. > :13:44.knife attack. In 2003, he was in prison again. An another man in the
:13:45. > :13:51.face outside this care home in Eastbourne. How many of us know
:13:52. > :13:57.other people around us? We deal with them, we work with them, we may be
:13:58. > :14:04.socialise with them. Do we know them that well? Fred remembers Masood as
:14:05. > :14:12.a troubled man, haunted by the colour of his skin. He said to me, I
:14:13. > :14:16.don't like myself. He said, I don't like my skin. He said, I feel that
:14:17. > :14:25.I'm not right, I'm not in the right body. I would say he was troubled in
:14:26. > :14:28.himself. I think the sort of alienation we are seeing with him
:14:29. > :14:32.when we are looking around the questions of race, it does fit with
:14:33. > :14:40.people from his generation. We can see a whole generation of older
:14:41. > :14:46.individuals involved in the jihadists mileau in the UK that very
:14:47. > :14:50.much felt that racism first-hand. The whole country will want to know
:14:51. > :14:54.who was responsible for this atrocity. Mr Speaker, it is still
:14:55. > :14:57.believed that this attack acted alone and the police have no reason
:14:58. > :15:00.to believe there are imminent further attacks on the public. His
:15:01. > :15:06.identity is known to the police and MI5. He was once investigated in
:15:07. > :15:07.relation to concerns about violent extremism. He was a peripheral
:15:08. > :15:15.figure. The so-called Islamic State claimed
:15:16. > :15:20.Masood Masood was one of their soldiers but they didn't claim to be
:15:21. > :15:24.behind the Westminster attack. He is not a soldier, I would more describe
:15:25. > :15:29.him as somebody who has been exploited and a man who is clearly a
:15:30. > :15:35.lone actor, who has come up from the basement so to speak to commit a
:15:36. > :15:39.murderous and cowardly attack. Adrian Elms became Khalid Masood
:15:40. > :15:43.aged 40. 12 years later he attacked London.
:15:44. > :15:48.He seems to be someone who adopted these ideas later in life. His age
:15:49. > :15:56.of 52 puts him at the elder end of the spuct but it is not unheard of.
:15:57. > :16:00.We don't know when Masood converted to Islam or when he became
:16:01. > :16:07.radicalised. One former close friend told us he believes it started in
:16:08. > :16:14.Masood 's late 30s, in prison. It was after 9/11, and Al-Qaeda
:16:15. > :16:21.extremists were being rounded up. So we know there are senior Al-Qaeda
:16:22. > :16:28.operatives who have been convicted before who target vulnerable I'm in
:16:29. > :16:33.prisons. And either offer them protection or, often they will take
:16:34. > :16:38.advantage, some times of mental health issues, there are can be a
:16:39. > :16:43.range of factors involved in radicalisation.
:16:44. > :16:50.Hannah's research suggests religious converted are more likely to pose a
:16:51. > :16:54.danger. Converts are involved in
:16:55. > :16:58.bio-terrorism so there are many more converts among the offenders we saw
:16:59. > :17:03.over the last 20 years than among the Muslim population in the UK at
:17:04. > :17:09.large. After he was released from prison,
:17:10. > :17:12.Masood went to Saudi Arabia, several times, teaching English. But there
:17:13. > :17:17.is no evidence he was add collide cloudy skied there.
:17:18. > :17:22.-- #r5d cloudy skied there. Saudi Arabia isn't a place one would think
:17:23. > :17:26.of for this, I think we have seen most individuals from the British
:17:27. > :17:33.radical milieu tend to radicalise here.
:17:34. > :17:37.When he returned, to the UK, Masood moved around, living in East London,
:17:38. > :17:45.Crawley, Birmingham, and Luton. All places which have been linked to
:17:46. > :17:49.terror plots. Masood settled in Luton with a new
:17:50. > :17:51.partner and one of the daughters from his press conference
:17:52. > :17:56.relationship. He reportedly converted her to Islam.
:17:57. > :18:00.I think Luton is a place which is unfortunately developed a fair
:18:01. > :18:03.profile nationally as a place where there are problems with
:18:04. > :18:10.radicalisation, so it has a long history of these radical community,
:18:11. > :18:17.congregating in that area. At that time, Luton was home to a
:18:18. > :18:21.convicted extremist who made this video, scouting Parliament as a
:18:22. > :18:24.terror target. Masood lived round the corner from the extremist and we
:18:25. > :18:35.have been told he had social contact with other people from the area.
:18:36. > :18:40.From Luton, there were moves to East London, and then Birmingham. Masood,
:18:41. > :18:43.his partner and their children moved into the Winson Green area, last
:18:44. > :18:48.year. Neighbours found him friendly, but
:18:49. > :18:56.reserved. He was a normal person, normal
:18:57. > :19:01.father, or husband, family man. What I've seen he was very calm. What I
:19:02. > :19:08.notice he was like, he liked to take care of his garden.
:19:09. > :19:12.Khalid Masood lived here in this quiet residential street for round
:19:13. > :19:17.eight month, until a couple of months ago, the man who neighbours
:19:18. > :19:20.said had a London accent, left a abruptly with his family. They
:19:21. > :19:26.didn't say goodbye, or where they were going.
:19:27. > :19:33.I had just seen a van parked in front of his garage, and just the
:19:34. > :19:37.garage open and take out thing, not big furniture, just some things,
:19:38. > :19:47.some stuff and then he disappeared, just in the night.
:19:48. > :19:52.269 people were convicted of Islamic terror offences in Britain or killed
:19:53. > :20:03.themselves as suicide bombers between 1998 and 2015.
:20:04. > :20:08.39 of them were from Birmingham. Masood's connection to Birmingham is
:20:09. > :20:14.interesting. My research showed that primacy of London and Birmingham as
:20:15. > :20:18.the offenders' last known place of residence, Birmingham if particular,
:20:19. > :20:25.the number of offenders coming from there has increased rapidly.
:20:26. > :20:28.Two men from Birmingham, arrested following Masood's attack are still
:20:29. > :20:33.being held on suspicion of terror offences.
:20:34. > :20:43.One of the city's MPs was in Parliament when it was locked down.
:20:44. > :20:49.I felt very uneasy that my city again has links to this sort of
:20:50. > :20:52.attack, and I was really very disappointed, personally that this
:20:53. > :20:56.had happened, because this is not the reputation I want for my city.
:20:57. > :21:00.Birmingham's had a problem with radicalisation and we need to
:21:01. > :21:05.address that. Good afternoon Birmingham. Two days
:21:06. > :21:11.ago, Birmingham's Muslim community gathered to show their condemnation
:21:12. > :21:15.of the attack. A Muslim prayer for our nation, oh Lord, unite our
:21:16. > :21:22.nation round the principles of justice, peace, love and faith.
:21:23. > :21:24.You don't want to go to work in the morning when these things happen,
:21:25. > :21:29.because it is happening again, we will be associated with it. It is
:21:30. > :21:33.that dread when you hear of an atrocity, let it be anybody but a
:21:34. > :21:37.Muslim. There is that feeling of you will have to to explain, you will
:21:38. > :21:41.have to distance yourself, because whether you like it or not you are
:21:42. > :21:45.associated with it. In Birmingham, there is confused as
:21:46. > :21:51.everyone else as to why Masood did it. He wasn't one of them. His
:21:52. > :21:55.profile as an offender fits some of the patterns be see, he is
:21:56. > :21:59.travelling round, he doesn't want his one location to be fixated and
:22:00. > :22:03.therefore lots of people who supposedly know him don't know him,
:22:04. > :22:07.because they say he seemed a nice friendly guy but they weren't able
:22:08. > :22:11.to talk to him. That is a typical offender profile in how terrorists
:22:12. > :22:21.move round. Thank you the organisers for today.
:22:22. > :22:29.Though his neighbours knew Masood had upped sticks and gone, had he
:22:30. > :22:36.left Birmingham? He used an address on the city's Hagley Road when he
:22:37. > :22:40.rented the car he drove to London. Six days before he attacked
:22:41. > :22:47.Westminster, Khalid Masood rented a car, from this firm in Birmingham.
:22:48. > :22:51.It was a grey Hyundai 4x4. A big and is heavy car. Car. Enterprise say
:22:52. > :22:56.they identified the vehicle, when they saw pictures of the attack and
:22:57. > :23:00.recognised the license plate. And they immediately contacted the
:23:01. > :23:04.authorities. The night before the attack, Masood
:23:05. > :23:12.stayed in Brighton, just 64 miles from Westminster.
:23:13. > :23:15.He was very friendly, smiling, and really nothing suspicious about the
:23:16. > :23:22.person, he was a normal guest who wanted to stay at the hotel.
:23:23. > :23:29.On Wednesday March 22nd, Masood headed for London.
:23:30. > :23:38.One main line of police inquiry we have learned is his activities on
:23:39. > :23:43.social media ming in the days leading up to and on the day of the
:23:44. > :23:48.attack. Who was he communicating with? We know that some of the
:23:49. > :23:51.platforms they use in social media are so heavily increpted it is
:23:52. > :23:56.difficult to understand who is reading what. And what we need to do
:23:57. > :24:02.is make sure that the companies, the IT companies that own those
:24:03. > :24:07.platforms are responsible. Whether or not Masood had
:24:08. > :24:13.accomplices, would be extremists can find inspiration and advice online.
:24:14. > :24:19.The Islamic State is now encouraging the use of knives and vehicles, in
:24:20. > :24:25.low tech terror attacks. What we have seen from across
:24:26. > :24:29.Europe, from France, from Belgium, people can, with very little low
:24:30. > :24:34.tech capability, arm themselves with knives, get into a large vehicle or
:24:35. > :24:38.a car, and if they have that murderous intent, they can commit
:24:39. > :24:42.these types of offences. Now that is a real shift, that is a real
:24:43. > :24:47.challenge for all of us. Previously you had to target public transport
:24:48. > :24:51.and do these big dramatic thing, now groups have realised this sort of a
:24:52. > :25:03.basic attack is just as effective, and will get just as much attention.
:25:04. > :25:08.So how should the police respond? PC Palmer was particle's first line of
:25:09. > :25:12.defence but he was unarmed. Should he have been armed? There is
:25:13. > :25:15.bound to be questions over whether anything would have been different
:25:16. > :25:18.if there were more armed police officers there, if PC Palmer had a
:25:19. > :25:22.gun. We will never know the answer to that, but what I think is
:25:23. > :25:25.important, is that there is many tactical options in terms of dealing
:25:26. > :25:32.with violent threat. One is firearms. The idea that suddenly
:25:33. > :25:36.arming a police officer will protect them from a sudden violent attack by
:25:37. > :25:41.a person who appears otherwise when they first approach, to be acting
:25:42. > :25:45.innocently, I think that may be a little bit fanciful. So I am not
:25:46. > :25:48.sure that arming police officers on the gate is necessarily going to be
:25:49. > :25:51.what the police think is the right solution.
:25:52. > :25:56.We have to go with the threats that we are currently dealing with, and I
:25:57. > :26:00.think MPs have to take the advice of the professionals in the police
:26:01. > :26:04.service, in terms of what we can do. This idea the traditional view of
:26:05. > :26:08.the British Bobby, wearing that helmet and walking on the street and
:26:09. > :26:13.that kind of stuff. We don't live in that world any more.
:26:14. > :26:18.Security at the Palace of Westminster is now being reviewed.
:26:19. > :26:24.But is it ever possible to counter these sos of attacks? I think we
:26:25. > :26:29.have been astonishing fortunate in the last few year, because our
:26:30. > :26:34.security services have been very agile at stopping plots but I think
:26:35. > :26:37.we have to accept that you can't prevent a lone actor who decides one
:26:38. > :26:41.morning that the time has come for him to go out and kill other human
:26:42. > :26:46.beings to make some sort of statement.
:26:47. > :26:51.13 people are still in hospital, following last week's attack.
:26:52. > :26:55.Whatever motivated Masood, he caused devastation with just a hire car and
:26:56. > :26:59.two knives. Such a simple thing, someone driving
:27:00. > :27:06.a car, across a bridge, with a couple of knives in his car. Then,
:27:07. > :27:11.he caused so much damage, and no-one can defend against that. No-one.
:27:12. > :27:15.My thoughts are with the families who have lost people, and their
:27:16. > :27:21.friends and their colleagues, it is deeply sad and been driven by a man
:27:22. > :27:24.who has become extremely angry and isolated within society. I don't
:27:25. > :27:28.want to blame anyone. I want us to make sure we are thankful for what
:27:29. > :27:32.we have, for the people that are still alive, and the people who are
:27:33. > :27:36.currently recovering. We should sort of try and unify
:27:37. > :27:39.through that, through love and compassion, rather than through our
:27:40. > :27:48.hatred and anger about what happened.
:27:49. > :27:54.While the public pay their respects outside Parliament, the police are
:27:55. > :28:00.appealing for any information about the attacker.
:28:01. > :28:02.Without that, they say, they might never know why Khalid Masood brought
:28:03. > :28:07.terror to London.