Mick Hartley

The Times headline this morning – Killer was Muslim convert:

The terrorist who brought carnage to Westminster was a Muslim convert and violent criminal known to the security services, it emerged last night, as the death toll rose to five.

Khalid Masood, 52, who stabbed PC Keith Palmer to death outside the Palace of Westminster after mowing down pedestrians on the nearby bridge, had been in prison twice, raising concerns that he may have been radicalised behind bars.

Masood was born Adrian Russell Ajao in Dartford, Kent, and brought up by a single mother in the seaside town of Rye, East Sussex, before a religious conversion, sources confirmed. After he was shot dead, Islamic State hailed him as one of its “soldiers”.

How wonderful that a violent criminal can find a meaning to his life, and gain final redemption, through the power of religion.