Khuram Butt was identified as an extremist but concerns were not passed to relevant teams METROPOLITAN POLICE/PAMI5 and the police consigned calls from the public voicing concerns about the leader of the London Bridge attacks to a “virtual dustbin”, the victims’ inquest was told yesterday. Two calls were made identifying Khuram Butt, 27, as an extremist and a person “of concern” but were not passed to relevant investigating teams. The Old Bailey was told that an MI6 officer sent an email alert about one of the killers to the wrong address at MI5. The “administrative error” stopped the security service building a picture of the emerging terrorist cell, one of its senior officials said as he gave evidence from behind a curtain. Dominic Adamson, for the family of Xavier Thomas, 45, the first victim of the attacks, told the inquest it…

Source: The Times June 13, 2019 23:07 UTC