Woman killed in London Bridge attack was Cambridge University student
The woman killed in the London Bridge terror attack on Friday was a former University of Cambridge student.
Professor Stephen J Toope, the university’s Vice-Chancellor, did not release her name but confirmed she was a student in a statement this afternoon.
The other victim was named as Jack Merritt, 25, yesterday, a University of Cambridge worker.
Jack graduated from the university and went on to work as a course coordinator for its Institute for Criminology’s Learning Together programme aimed at improving rehabilitation.
The initiative involved prisoners and Cambridge University students working together on the same courses.
Previously convicted terrorist Usman Khan, 28, was attending a conference of theirs yesterday at Fishmongers’ Hall, near London Bridge.
The assailant, who was wearing a fake suicide-vest, had ‘threatened to blow up’ the building and was thought to have started ‘lashing out’ in a downstairs room.
He was reportedly grabbed by conference-goers and bundled out of the front door and ended up on the bridge, where he was tackled by members of the public and shot dead by police.
Posting on Twitter, Jack’s father David Merritt said: ‘My son, Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.
‘R.I.P. Jack: you were a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog.’
Khan, who was released from prison in December 2018 and was wearing an electronic tag, also killed a woman, who is yet to be identified.
He also wounded and hospitalised three others, two of whom are now stable and another with less serious injuries.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said the convicted terrorist released from prison in December 2018 had been living in the Staffordshire area.
He said the force were ‘not actively seeking anyone else’ over the attack.