Before he killed at least four people in Britain’s deadliest attack since the 2005 London bombings, Khalid Masood was considered by intelligence officers to be a criminal who posed little serious threat.
As the police investigate the lone wolf attacker, here’s what we know about him.
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Masood, 52, was born Adrian Elms in Dartford, Kent, and brought up by a single parent in the seaside town of Rye, East Sussex
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Masood’s first conviction came when he was 19-years-old in November 1983 for criminal damage. His last conviction was in December 2003 for possession of a knife. He had never been convicted of a terrorism offence
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At one stage he was being monitored by MI5 for his extremist views but eventually the investigation was dropped
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He was a married father of three, according to reports in the British press. The Westminster attacker, an alleged “teacher,” was never actually a qualified teacher, the Department of Education told the BBC, and apparently called himself an “English tutor”
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A neighbour described him as a “nice, quiet man”. She told the Birmingham Mail that she often saw him washing his car and mowing his lawn when he lived in Quayside
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The Mirror reports that neighbours nicknamed him “the vampire” because he would frequently go out at night dressed in black
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Sky News quoting a source said that Masood was a “very religious, well-spoken man”
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The Mirror also reported that the night before Masood went on a rampage, killing four, he had booked himself into Preston Park Hotel in Brighton where he mapped out how his attack
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The hotel staff, according to the Mirror report, described Masood as “nice, polite and calm”
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On Tuesday night he told staff he was "off to London" the next day
