Usman preached terrorism on the internet and soon gained importance. In the year 2012, he was convicted of terrorism crime. He was among nine men charged with conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in London and other cities of Britain. He was sentenced to detention for public protection with a lowest custodial term of eight years. The police said Usman had attended an event where the attack had begun. In the UK, terrorism-related incidents were ascribed to the Irish Republican Army. Following 2001, several terror attacks have been carried out in the UK by people described as Islamic terrorists. The recent dastardly knife attack in London, carried out by Usman Khan, a Britisher of Pakistani origin, has rekindled the debate about domestic-grown extremism in the West. He was born and brought up in the UK, and was seemingly radicalized. No concrete proof has risen linking the suspect to any of the militant groups that have operated in Pakistan. There is plenty of proof that militants who have been born and have grown up in the West are quite capable of bringing destruction on their own.
The Metropolitan Police detected the doubtful London Bridge attacker as British national Usman Khan, a 28-year-old man from Staffordshire. Born in London, Khan is of Pakistani affiliation and had stabbed two people to death and left three injured a day earlier in an attack that had caused fear and alarm across the city. He was part of a group of nine extremists from Stoke-on-Trent, Cardiff and London who were sentenced in February 2012 at Woolwich crown court. Usman Khan was shot dead by professional armed forces. Khan had been freed from prison on an electronic tag and that he was wearing a fake suicide vest when he attended the criminal justice conference near London Bridge. He then began stabbing fellow delegates with two large knives. Khan is thought to have attended the morning session and participated in workshops in which he described his experiences as a prisoner, before launching his deadly attack without warning just before 2pm. Before Khan left the building and proceeded to London Bridge, where he was detained and afterward faced and shot by armed officers. He appears to have left school with no qualifications after spending part of his life in Pakistan, where he lived with his mother when she became sick. On his return to the UK, he started preaching `extremism` on the internet appealing all important people. Khan confessed guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism contrary to Section 5(1) of the UK`s Terrorism Act 2006.Khan was among nine men charged with plot to bomb high-profile London targets in the run-up to Christmas in 2010.During the investigations, a hand-written target list found at one of the defendants` homes listed the names and addresses of then London mayor Boris Johnson, the American embassy and the Stock Exchange. Khan was sentenced to detention for public protection with a minimum custo-dial term of eight years a sentence planned by the UK authorities to protect public from offenders whose crimes did not merit a life term. Once they finish their tariff, they can apply to a parole board for release. The parole board releases a criminal only if it is pleased that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public for the convict to be confined. If perpetrators are given parole, they will be on supervised licence for at least 10 years. He was freed on licence in December 2018.The judge had also stated that the Stoke defendants, including Khan, were registered discussing terror attacks overseas. On Dec 15, 2010, Khan had been supervised by the UK authorities in conversation about how to construct a pipe bomb from a recipe referred to in an Al Qaeda publication. The authorities also heard Khan seeking to radicalize another male and making clear his intentions to travel abroad to a training camp that externally appeared to be a seminary. The Stoke group, which included Khan, was to fund the camp and recruit men for it. The court noted that Khan `expected only victory.
Two victims killed in a terror attack near London Bridge were University of Cambridge graduates. Saskia Jones, age 23, and Jack Merritt, age 25, were both involved with Learning Together, a network of academics and criminal justice organizations, which was welcoming an event at Fishmonger’s Hall where the attack began. Thousands of former jihadis are set to be freed from jail. Innumerable of former jihadis are set to be freed from jail. Merritt worked as a course coordinator for Learning Together and Jones was a volunteer for the group. The victims’ family criticized the Conservative government’s plans to review Britain’s judicial sentencing system in the aftermath of the attack. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the group used anything they could find to stop the attacker from harming others. They mayor said a Londoner of Polish origin was among the group of people who involved. The matter has turned into political sports in the run-up to the December 12 general election. Both the main party leaders accused previous governments for failures in the justice system. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who served as foreign secretary in the last Conservative government, stated that it was “repulsive” that attacker Khan was out on early release after being convicted of terror criminal. An examination was needed of how prison services work and on what happens when they are released from prison. No probation service was involved in supervising this sort of person. Prison need to be a place where people are being put away but also a place where recuperation takes place.