London Bridge ringleader was ‘medium risk’

The ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack was only considered a ‘medium risk’ by MI5 despite rubbing shoulders with known extremists including Anjem Choudary, an inquest heard. Khuram Butt, 27, came onto MI5’s radar back in 2015 following a tip-off ‘suggesting that an individual had an aspiration to conduct an attack in the UK’. In July 2015 he had been spotted at a rally at Regent’s Park Mosque before praying in front of an ISIS flag in the park…

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