LONDON: The man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman in Wednesday’s deadly assault outside Britain’s parliament has been identified by police as 52-year-old former convict Khalid Masood. A spokeswoman for Britain’s education ministry told Agence France-Presse Masood was not a qualified teacher and had therefore not taught in any state schools. British media described Masood as a Muslim convert, with one source telling Sky News he was a “very religious, well spoken man”. I used to see him outside doing his garden,” Iwona Romek, a former neighbor of his told the Birmingham Mail. More recently Masood may have been living in a flat next to a Persian restaurant and a pizza parlor in the upmarket Edgbaston neighborhood, according to reports.

Source: Manila Times March 24, 2017 00:22 UTC