Tip off about London Bridge terrorist was missed

A Counter Terrorism detective admitted that MI5 closed their investigation into one of the London Bridge attackers after they missed key evidence, the inquest heard. The SO15 officer, identified only as ‘Witness M’, told the Old Bailey a tip-off to the anti-terrorist hotline about Khuram Butt, 27, was never passed on to the team investigating him. Eight people were killed when Butt, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, drove a van into pedestrians and stabbed others to death in…

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