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Five days ago, terror came here, to the heart of London, killing and | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
maiming indiscriminately. There is a breaking news story over at | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Westminster Palace. We are getting reports of an incident outside the | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Palace of Westminster. Breaking news, there are reports of gunshots | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
being heard outside the Houses of Parliament. At 2.39 last Wednesday | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
afternoon, Khalid Masood was seemingly just another London | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
motorist. Seconds later, he was a killer, driving his rented car onto | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
the pavement, ploughing into pedestrians on one of London's | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
busiest bridges. A tour guide, Adrian Istoria, saw it all. There | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
was screaming, like you never thought you would hear that, or | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
never prepared to see something like that. Those kind of expressions, | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
like, Jesus, help us, those expressions. Everything covered with | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
screaming and crying. He has mown down about three people | :01:22. | :01:34. | |
on Westminster Bridge. American tourists Kurt and Melissa Cochran | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
with the first to be hit. They were in London celebrating their 25th | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
wedding anniversary. A second later, a CCTV camera filmed Masood | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
continuing to career along the pavement at speed. Did you see the | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
car hit anybody? Yes, I did. The impact of Masood's car hurled | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
29-year-old Andreea Cristea into the River Thames. The Romanian architect | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
was later rescued, but suffered serious head injuries. The car | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
ploughed on, through the people on the bridge. I saw my first friend in | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
front, he left out of the way. Then I saw this black shape coming | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
towards me. I thought, that's a car. I felt sharp pain on my head. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
18-year-old politics student Owen Lambert had just left the House of | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Commons after a tour and was sightseeing on the bridge with | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
friends. I was spun around, then I was on the floor, on top of my | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
friend. I saw blood on his neck. I said to him, you are bleeding. He | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
gestured to me, he looked at me. He said... Well, he didn't say | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
anything, he looked at me, I put my hand to my head and realised it | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
wasn't his blood, it was mine. When he reaches the security barriers at | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
the end of the bridge, Masood is forced back onto the road. Driving | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
around those security barriers, Masood then aims his car at a more | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
pedestrians by the railings, round Parliament. Then he smashes into | :03:18. | :03:30. | |
them. In this moment, you go numb. I thought, when is this going to stop | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
now? It is becoming clear to those around that something is badly | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
wrong. At ease traffic lights, Carl might is listening to music on his | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
headphones, on the top of a number 159 bus, when he hears a bang. -- | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
Carl Knight. It sounded like a really loud backfire of a car. That | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
is the best way I could describe it. I thought, what the hell? That is | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
when I turned around to see this car, and the front end of it was | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
completely crushed in. Then I saw two bodies on the floor. Mon dieu! | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
My God! He then saw Khalid Masood get out of the smashed a car. He | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
opens the door, he stands up, dazed, a little bit unsteady on his feet, | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
looking around. Carl Knight was still watching from the top of the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
number 159 bus. He said Masood, after crashing his hire car, armed | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
with two knives, moved towards a woman with a child against the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
railings here. She screamed at the knifeman not to hurt them. You know | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
what, you can tell a mother's love for a child in that moment. She | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
wrapped itself around this child, as if to protect it. Masood then | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
started moving around this corner, towards the eastern entrance to the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
Palace of Westminster. At that point, he began gathering pace. He | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
went from jogging to charging. There was a person that he pushed out of | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
the way. He could have used the knife, but he didn't. He pushed. His | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
view was briefly obscured. But Daily Mail journalist Quentin Letts saw | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
what happened next from his office window, overlooking the yard in | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
front of Big Ben. We saw members of the public, pedestrians in the | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
street, running in apparent terror, screaming, away from some source of | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
violence. A second later, I saw the source of violence, a thickset man | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
in dark clothes. He was running towards a police officer in a | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
high-vis jacket. You could see him stabbing the police officer. He done | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
it about five times. That police officer was PC Keith Palmer. That | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
lasted all of one and a half seconds, I would say. It was very | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
quick. It was a violent, deranged movement. The police officer got off | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
his knees and ran to the other side, as if he was going around the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
roundabout, that way. The attacker followed. Of the police appeared, | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
including two plainclothed figures. They issued a challenge of some | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
sort. I couldn't hear what it was, but I could hear that they shouted | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
at the man. He ignored them and kept walking, or running towards them. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Then you heard two shots and then another one afterwards. It was like | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
pop, pop, pop. Masood was fatally wounded, shot, it is believed, by | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
two members of the ministerial security unit. It had been just 82 | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
seconds from his car first mounting the pavement on Westminster Bridge | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
to him being shot. Near to Masood laid PC Palmer, an officer with 15 | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
years experience. You don't expect gunshots in Westminster. I looked up | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
to see what had happened and realised there were two people on | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
the floor and a handful of policeman around them. Former Army captain and | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
Afghanistan veteran Mike Crofts, in Parliament for a meeting, now | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
emerged from behind a car, where he was taking cover. He rushed over to | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
help PC Palmer. I tried to assess his wounds as best as possible. I'm | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
not a doctor. I looked back towards the Palace of Westminster and | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
screamed for a medic. He was joined shortly after by police, security | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
guards and Bournemouth MP Tobias Ellwood, himself a former Army | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
officer. He brought with him a good sense of calm. Immediately we | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
started to work on PC Palmer together to try to help him. You | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
were trying to resuscitating? Yes. Medics also worked to save Masood. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Nothing could be done for either of the men. Unfortunately, PC Palmer | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
died, despite our best efforts. He sacrificed himself for everyone | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
else. Less than an hour before the attacks, PC Palmer had been posing | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
for tourist pictures. Moments later, he was defending Parliament from a | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
terror attack. He really was heroic. Being a barrier between himself and | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Parliament. There were a large number of people exiting Parliament | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
at that time. It frightens me to think what would have happened if | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
the attacker had got into the crowd. Over on the bridge, the scene was | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
one of horror. Owen Lambert was lucky. He had a minor head injury | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
and bruised leg. I looked down the bridge towards where the car had | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
come from. There were people lying down, people in the road, cars had | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
stopped. There was lots of debris everywhere, blood, lots of blood. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
About 50 people had been hit by Masood's Park. Some had catastrophic | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
injuries. Kurt Cochran, the American tourist, died. His wife, Melissa, | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
survived. Aysha Frade, a mother on her way to pick up two children from | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
school, was killed. 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes was the oldest to die. | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
In the House of Commons, MPs were completely unaware of the terror | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
unfolding outside. That soon changed. Parliament went into | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
lockdown. Order. I am now going to suspend the sitting of the house. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
This house is now suspended, but please wait here. Prime Minister | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
Theresa May was in the voting lobby. MP Andrew Bridgen was just feet away | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
when he saw plainclothed police officers approach her. I heard her | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
say, oh, he put his arm around her and very rapidly guided her out of | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
the back of the chamber and away. The Prime Minister was taken to her | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
armoured car in the speaker's courtyard. Everybody was looking out | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
the windows. You could see two plainclothes bodyguards with | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
automatic weapons, standing either side of the archway in speakers | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
courtyard, covering while the Prime Minister got into her car. | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
So, how did a polite schoolboy who loved sport and music turn into a | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
killer? Khalid Masood was born in Dartford in Kent on Christmas Day | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
1964. The name on his birth certificate, Adrian Russell Elms. As | :11:23. | :11:36. | |
a teenager, he called himself Adrian Ajoa as well, taking his | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
stepfather's name. By the early 90s, he was living a seemingly | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
middle-class life in the Home Counties with his then partner, Jane | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Harvey. The couple worked alongside each other in a rental property | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
owned by the Eastwood family. I didn't have a long conversation with | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
him. It was apparent that the meeting that she was the leading | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
person within the business and that he was more there to support her in | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
the physical side of lifting and moving objects around. I met him 15 | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
years ago. Seemed to me he was quite tall and physically well built. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Almost quite normal, in a way. He didn't seem aggressive or anything, | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
until he obviously knifed our local landlord. One minute he's cool, the | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
next minute he is violent, you know? He was like Jekyll and bloody Hyde. | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
Incredible fella. Fred Lawrence was with Adie, as he called him, when, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
aged 36, Masood slashed a landlord's face with a knife in a pub car park | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
in East Sussex. He drew his knife out, he went for him, cut his face | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
and my son grabbed him. My son is big, luckily, to be honest with you, | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
think you would have done him. I saw him, and he had the knife. I was | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
walking towards him and thought, he's in a completely different frame | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
of mind. It was a completely different person, it was an animal. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
The landlord needed 20 stitches and Masood got nearly three years in | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
prison. Jay loved him to bits and stuck up for him so many times, she | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
always tried to stick up for him. She wanted to help them. But the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
couple, who had two daughters, split up after Masood was jailed for the | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
knife attack. In 2003, he was in prison again. An another man in the | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
face outside this care home in Eastbourne. How many of us know | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
other people around us? We deal with them, we work with them, we may be | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
socialise with them. Do we know them that well? Fred remembers Masood as | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
a troubled man, haunted by the colour of his skin. He said to me, I | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
don't like myself. He said, I don't like my skin. He said, I feel that | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
I'm not right, I'm not in the right body. I would say he was troubled in | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
himself. I think the sort of alienation we are seeing with him | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
when we are looking around the questions of race, it does fit with | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
people from his generation. We can see a whole generation of older | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
individuals involved in the jihadists mileau in the UK that very | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
much felt that racism first-hand. The whole country will want to know | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
who was responsible for this atrocity. Mr Speaker, it is still | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
believed that this attack acted alone and the police have no reason | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
to believe there are imminent further attacks on the public. His | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
identity is known to the police and MI5. He was once investigated in | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
relation to concerns about violent extremism. He was a peripheral | :15:07. | :15:07. | |
figure. The so-called Islamic State claimed | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
Masood Masood was one of their soldiers but they didn't claim to be | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
behind the Westminster attack. He is not a soldier, I would more describe | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
him as somebody who has been exploited and a man who is clearly a | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
lone actor, who has come up from the basement so to speak to commit a | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
murderous and cowardly attack. Adrian Elms became Khalid Masood | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
aged 40. 12 years later he attacked London. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
He seems to be someone who adopted these ideas later in life. His age | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
of 52 puts him at the elder end of the spuct but it is not unheard of. | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
We don't know when Masood converted to Islam or when he became | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
radicalised. One former close friend told us he believes it started in | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
Masood 's late 30s, in prison. It was after 9/11, and Al-Qaeda | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
extremists were being rounded up. So we know there are senior Al-Qaeda | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
operatives who have been convicted before who target vulnerable I'm in | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
prisons. And either offer them protection or, often they will take | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
advantage, some times of mental health issues, there are can be a | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
range of factors involved in radicalisation. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Hannah's research suggests religious converted are more likely to pose a | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
danger. Converts are involved in | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
bio-terrorism so there are many more converts among the offenders we saw | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
over the last 20 years than among the Muslim population in the UK at | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
large. After he was released from prison, | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
Masood went to Saudi Arabia, several times, teaching English. But there | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
is no evidence he was add collide cloudy skied there. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
-- #r5d cloudy skied there. Saudi Arabia isn't a place one would think | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
of for this, I think we have seen most individuals from the British | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
radical milieu tend to radicalise here. | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
When he returned, to the UK, Masood moved around, living in East London, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Crawley, Birmingham, and Luton. All places which have been linked to | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
terror plots. Masood settled in Luton with a new | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
partner and one of the daughters from his press conference | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
relationship. He reportedly converted her to Islam. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
I think Luton is a place which is unfortunately developed a fair | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
profile nationally as a place where there are problems with | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
radicalisation, so it has a long history of these radical community, | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
congregating in that area. At that time, Luton was home to a | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
convicted extremist who made this video, scouting Parliament as a | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
terror target. Masood lived round the corner from the extremist and we | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
have been told he had social contact with other people from the area. | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
From Luton, there were moves to East London, and then Birmingham. Masood, | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
his partner and their children moved into the Winson Green area, last | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
year. Neighbours found him friendly, but | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
reserved. He was a normal person, normal | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
father, or husband, family man. What I've seen he was very calm. What I | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
notice he was like, he liked to take care of his garden. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Khalid Masood lived here in this quiet residential street for round | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
eight month, until a couple of months ago, the man who neighbours | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
said had a London accent, left a abruptly with his family. They | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
didn't say goodbye, or where they were going. | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
I had just seen a van parked in front of his garage, and just the | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
garage open and take out thing, not big furniture, just some things, | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
some stuff and then he disappeared, just in the night. | :19:38. | :19:47. | |
269 people were convicted of Islamic terror offences in Britain or killed | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
themselves as suicide bombers between 1998 and 2015. | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
39 of them were from Birmingham. Masood's connection to Birmingham is | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
interesting. My research showed that primacy of London and Birmingham as | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
the offenders' last known place of residence, Birmingham if particular, | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
the number of offenders coming from there has increased rapidly. | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
Two men from Birmingham, arrested following Masood's attack are still | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
being held on suspicion of terror offences. | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
One of the city's MPs was in Parliament when it was locked down. | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
I felt very uneasy that my city again has links to this sort of | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
attack, and I was really very disappointed, personally that this | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
had happened, because this is not the reputation I want for my city. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Birmingham's had a problem with radicalisation and we need to | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
address that. Good afternoon Birmingham. Two days | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
ago, Birmingham's Muslim community gathered to show their condemnation | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
of the attack. A Muslim prayer for our nation, oh Lord, unite our | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
nation round the principles of justice, peace, love and faith. | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
You don't want to go to work in the morning when these things happen, | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
because it is happening again, we will be associated with it. It is | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
that dread when you hear of an atrocity, let it be anybody but a | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Muslim. There is that feeling of you will have to to explain, you will | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
have to distance yourself, because whether you like it or not you are | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
associated with it. In Birmingham, there is confused as | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
everyone else as to why Masood did it. He wasn't one of them. His | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
profile as an offender fits some of the patterns be see, he is | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
travelling round, he doesn't want his one location to be fixated and | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
therefore lots of people who supposedly know him don't know him, | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
because they say he seemed a nice friendly guy but they weren't able | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
to talk to him. That is a typical offender profile in how terrorists | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
move round. Thank you the organisers for today. | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
Though his neighbours knew Masood had upped sticks and gone, had he | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
left Birmingham? He used an address on the city's Hagley Road when he | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
rented the car he drove to London. Six days before he attacked | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Westminster, Khalid Masood rented a car, from this firm in Birmingham. | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
It was a grey Hyundai 4x4. A big and is heavy car. Car. Enterprise say | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
they identified the vehicle, when they saw pictures of the attack and | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
recognised the license plate. And they immediately contacted the | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
authorities. The night before the attack, Masood | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
stayed in Brighton, just 64 miles from Westminster. | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
He was very friendly, smiling, and really nothing suspicious about the | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
person, he was a normal guest who wanted to stay at the hotel. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
On Wednesday March 22nd, Masood headed for London. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
One main line of police inquiry we have learned is his activities on | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
social media ming in the days leading up to and on the day of the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
attack. Who was he communicating with? We know that some of the | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
platforms they use in social media are so heavily increpted it is | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
difficult to understand who is reading what. And what we need to do | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
is make sure that the companies, the IT companies that own those | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
platforms are responsible. Whether or not Masood had | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
accomplices, would be extremists can find inspiration and advice online. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
The Islamic State is now encouraging the use of knives and vehicles, in | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
low tech terror attacks. What we have seen from across | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
Europe, from France, from Belgium, people can, with very little low | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
tech capability, arm themselves with knives, get into a large vehicle or | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
a car, and if they have that murderous intent, they can commit | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
these types of offences. Now that is a real shift, that is a real | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
challenge for all of us. Previously you had to target public transport | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
and do these big dramatic thing, now groups have realised this sort of a | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
basic attack is just as effective, and will get just as much attention. | :24:52. | :25:03. | |
So how should the police respond? PC Palmer was particle's first line of | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
defence but he was unarmed. Should he have been armed? There is | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
bound to be questions over whether anything would have been different | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
if there were more armed police officers there, if PC Palmer had a | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
gun. We will never know the answer to that, but what I think is | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
important, is that there is many tactical options in terms of dealing | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
with violent threat. One is firearms. The idea that suddenly | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
arming a police officer will protect them from a sudden violent attack by | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
a person who appears otherwise when they first approach, to be acting | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
innocently, I think that may be a little bit fanciful. So I am not | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
sure that arming police officers on the gate is necessarily going to be | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
what the police think is the right solution. | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
We have to go with the threats that we are currently dealing with, and I | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
think MPs have to take the advice of the professionals in the police | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
service, in terms of what we can do. This idea the traditional view of | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
the British Bobby, wearing that helmet and walking on the street and | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
that kind of stuff. We don't live in that world any more. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
Security at the Palace of Westminster is now being reviewed. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
But is it ever possible to counter these sos of attacks? I think we | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
have been astonishing fortunate in the last few year, because our | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
security services have been very agile at stopping plots but I think | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
we have to accept that you can't prevent a lone actor who decides one | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
morning that the time has come for him to go out and kill other human | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
beings to make some sort of statement. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
13 people are still in hospital, following last week's attack. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Whatever motivated Masood, he caused devastation with just a hire car and | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
two knives. Such a simple thing, someone driving | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
a car, across a bridge, with a couple of knives in his car. Then, | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
he caused so much damage, and no-one can defend against that. No-one. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
My thoughts are with the families who have lost people, and their | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
friends and their colleagues, it is deeply sad and been driven by a man | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
who has become extremely angry and isolated within society. I don't | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
want to blame anyone. I want us to make sure we are thankful for what | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
we have, for the people that are still alive, and the people who are | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
currently recovering. We should sort of try and unify | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
through that, through love and compassion, rather than through our | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
hatred and anger about what happened. | :27:40. | :27:48. | |
While the public pay their respects outside Parliament, the police are | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
appealing for any information about the attacker. | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
Without that, they say, they might never know why Khalid Masood brought | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
terror to London. | :28:03. | :28:07. |