‘Animal’ terrorist stabbed me in the neck

The leader of the London Bridge attack tried to execute a journalist with ‘murderous rage’ after the victim pleaded ‘You don’t have to do this’, an inquest heard. Khuram Butt, 27, plunged his 12-inch knife into Geoff Ho’s neck twice and tried to twist the blade to finish him off in Borough Market’s Black and Blue restaurant. Wearing an Arsenal football shirt, the Isis killer had marched in ‘like an animal’ and ordered drinkers and staff to ‘lie on the…