Spooks downgraded Westminster Bridge killer

An MI5 chief told the Westminster Bridge inquest  how the decision was taken to downgrade Khalid Masood as a ‘subject of interest’ six years before the attack. Masood, 52, killed four pedestrians using a rented 4×4 before crashing into gates at the Palace of Westminster and stabbing PC Keith Palmer, 48, to death on 22 March last year. The spy chief, referred to only as Witness ‘L’, said Masood first appeared on their radar in 2004 when his telephone number…