.— dead, i wanted it over. jack merritt and saskia jones _ dead, i wanted it over. jack merritt and saskiaad _ dead, i wanted it over. jack merritt and saskia jones had been - dead, i wanted it over. jack merritt i and saskia jones had been murdered and saskia jones had been murdered by a man he was known to have had a terrorist past and was still under active investigation by mi5. of course, usman khan was responsible for saskia jones and jack merritt�*s death and that is why there was an unlawful killing conclusion by the jury, but it is striking that in their written conclusions, they talked about a lack of accountability by agencies of the state, not only had they nobody stood up and said, are we really going to allow usman khan to travel to london alonejust going to allow usman khan to travel to london alone just a year after his release, but also, that key bit of intelligence, he intends to carry out an attack after his release hadn't been widely shared. daniel sandford, thank you very much. and you can see much more on that over the course of the afternoon on the bbc news channel. t

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jack merritt and saskia jones were unlawfully killed' by usman khan in 2019.heir families say the authorities let them down. the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko accuses the west of trying to destabilise his country during talks with president putin. facing up to its colonial past. for the first time, germany formally recognises it committed genocide in namibia, and promises over a billion dollars in aid. and, the $6 trillion plan. president biden pushes the biggest spending programme since world war two to reboot the us economy and fend off competition from china. hello and welcome. inquests have ruled that two young cambridge graduates were unlawfully killed by a convicted terrorist at a prisoner rehabilitation event in london after a string of failures by police, the security services and probation service. jack merritt and saskia jones were stabbed to death by usman khan during the attack at fishmongers�* hall in 2019. he'd been released from prison on licence less than a year earlier — and was allowed to travel alone to the event in london — where

saskia jones and jack merritt were extremely bright and talented young people.to do something good with their lives, to make tremendously positive contributions to our society. the fact that, as the jury determined, there were omissions or failures in the management of the attacker, and in the sharing of information and guidance by the agencies responsible, is simply unacceptable and i am so deeply sorry we weren't better than this in november 2019. usman khan was jailed as a teenager for trying to set up a terrorist training camp. after eight years in prison, he was still a high—risk category a inmate, seen as a violent, radicalising leader of prison extremists. a month before he was freed, there was intelligence recorded in capital letters that he intended to carry out an attack after his release. in prison, he had mixed with michael adebolajo, who killed lee rigby, leaders of two major al-qaeda bomb plots and the infamous preacher abu hamza. jack merritt�*s parents told me their son's death was the result of an unforgivable failure by a system that was not fi

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jack merritt�*s parents told me there some�*s death was as a jack merritt�*s parents told me their son'slt of a system not fit for purpose. they had this hugely dangerous person and they lost sight of him being dangerous from the beginning. with all that information, you would have thought the authorities would have put in place a system to monitor and manage him effectively and keep the public safe. they failed to do that. injail, khan studied with cambridge university's learning together university's learning together prison education scheme. he became their poster boy, even recording a video for them. after his release, living in a flat in stafford, he stuck to the rules, lulling everyone into a false sense of security. but mostly he spent days alone playing days alone playing violent video games. a prison psychologist had warned that if he started isolating, it was a worrying sign. once he knew he was travelling alone to london, khan started to prepare, shopping for four large knives and materials to make a fake suicide belt. that same month, the public protection panel that was resp

afterwards, the parents of jack merritt were critical of the level of supervision of usman khan. d security services and west midlands counterterrorism police were complacent and passive in the face of usman khan continuing threats. we welcome the changes implemented by the probation service in the management of terrorism offenders post release especially teams with a focus on terrorism, smaller caseloads, especially training and experience offices and with access to psychological analysis of offenders. we hope all other agencies and organisations involved with usman khan will learn the lessons highlighted by the inquest. and will make changes to their systems and working practices as appropriate. philipjones, uncle of saskia jones, read a family statement criticising the organisation learning together, which ran the event at fishmongers hall in november 2019. the conclusion of the inquest does not in any way ease the pain of our loss of saskia, and leaves a number of unanswered questions relating to failures of a number of organisations and individuals. it is important to us that

first, jack merritt, then saskia jones.ore a porter, a civil servant, a prisoner on day release and an ex—prisoner intervened. the first to take khan on wasjohn crilly, who remembers trying to challenge him, in a desperate effort to stop him stabbing people. questions like, what do you think you're doing? what's going on here? hejust replied to me, i'm going to kill you all "i'm going to kill you all "and blow you all up." and then ijust, maybe stupidly, told him to blow it, then, get on with it. at which point, he said, i'm waiting for the police "to come, i'll blow it then." working with a prisoner on day release and a civil servant, john crilly drove khan out onto london bridge, where the three of them tackled him to ground using an ornamental tusk and a fire extinguisher, and waited for help. so, as the police arrived as we were taking the knives off khan, obviously, he said he was waiting for the police to blow the belt, so ijust went into shock. i just didn't know what they were waiting for. i'm screaming at them to s

jack merritt and saskia jones were "unlawfully killed" by usman khan in 2019.heir families say the authorities let them down. they had this hugely dangerous person— they had this hugely dangerous person and they lost sight of him being _ person and they lost sight of him being dangerous, really, from the beginning — being dangerous, really, from the beaainnin. ~ ., being dangerous, really, from the beaainnin. ~ . ., beginning. with all that information, _ beginning. with all that information, you - beginning. with all that information, you would | beginning. with all that - information, you would have beginning. with all that _ information, you would have thought that the authorities would have put in place a system to monitor and manage them effectively and keep the public safe, and they fail to do that. as the number of new uk coronavirus cases rises to more than 4,000, there's growing concern over whether restrictions can be lifted next month. the downing street flat refurbishment — an independent adviser says the prime minister didn't break the ministerial

an inquestjury finds jack merritt and saskia jones were �*unlawfully killed' at fishmongers hall by convictedrorist usman khan. a report into borisjohnson's refurbishment of his downing street flat says he didn't break the ministerial code, but did act unwisely. as the number of new uk coronavirus cases rises to more than a—thousand, there's growing concern over the further easing of restrictions due next month now on bbc news, the film review. i , it's a friday, and that means only one thing. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new movies available for viewing both in cinemas and in the home. back in 1961, disney scored an animated hit with 101 dominations adapted from the novel by dodie smith. a live—action remake starring glenn close as cruela devile followed in 1996 with a sequel 102 dalmations a few years later. now, as disney's campaign to recycle and reboot its back catalogue continues apace, we have cruella, a live—action prequel that's been in the works for almost a decade and which glenn close gets an executive producer credit. do you hav

saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisationan had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreeing to the trip, they had been aware of it and had not objected. "they must have said he can go," he explained, "that decision would not have been made alone by me." either way, khan did travelm by himself, on a train to the capital, despite what saskia jones�*s family's lawyer said today was a remarkable n

saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreeing to the trip, they had been aware of it and had not objected. "they must have said he can go," he explained, "that decision would not have been made alone by me." either way, khan did travelm by himself, on a train to the capital, despite what saskia jones�*s family's lawyer said today was a remarkable num

saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreeing to the trip, they had been aware of it and had not objected. "they must have said he can go," he explained, "that decision would not have been made alone by me." either way, khan did travelm by himself, on a train to the capital, despite what saskia jones�*s family's lawyer said today was a remarkable num

saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisationnmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreeing to the trip, they had been aware of it and had not objected. "they must have said he can go," he explained, "that decision would not have been made alone by me." either way, khan did travel by himself, on a train to the capital, despite what saskia jones's family's lawyer said today was a remarkable number of red flags waving. daniel sandford, bbc news. a woman from mali in west africa may have m

saskiw saskinones saskiw jones and jack saskinones and jack merritt were stabbed by usman khan at rehabilitation event in london in 2019. president lukashenko of belarus has accused his country's opponents of trying to de—stabilise his nation. he made the comments during talks with president putin in the black sea resort of sochi. president biden has proposed a $6 trillion budget to fund his ambitious makeover of the economy in 2022. announcing the proposed spending, mr biden said the post—pandemic united states cannot afford to return to the way things were before. germany has formally recognised that its colonial troops committed genocide in what's now namibia at the start of the 20th century. it has agreed to pay $1.3 billion towards development projects in affected communities. at 10pm, sophie raworth will be here with a full round up of the day's news. before that, newscast. laura, shall we do that old thing of which character from friends are you? but do it with chris mason, who has still never seen a single episode? what, still? still? well, i suppose he has been quite busy in the last fe

jack merritt and saskia jones were unlawfully killed' by usman khan in 2019.n leader, alexander lukashenko accuses the west of trying to destabilise his country during talks with president putin. facing up to its colonial past. for the first time, germany formally recognises it committed genocide in namibia, and promises over a billion dollars in aid. and, the $6 trillion plan. president biden pushes the biggest spending programme since world war two to reboot the us economy and fend off competition from china.

homework over the initial tack concluding that nothing could've been done to stop him from killing jack merrittnd saskia jones while the evidence presented at the inquest seriously cast doubt on that and suggests that there were enormous missed opportunities for people with expertise to have stopped this and numerous chances, you know, numerous warning signs about his behaviour, his state of mind in the run—up to the attack, and that people were put at risk when they did not need to be put at risk, which is a really serious issue. , ., , risk, which is a really serious issue. g . , ., , risk, which is a really serious issue. ., , . issue. jasmine, always difficult, these stories, _ issue. jasmine, always difficult, these stories, because - issue. jasmine, always difficult, these stories, because the - issue. jasmine, always difficult, l these stories, because the actual incident happened two years ago, not too full calendar years, but 2019, which feels, after covid, like a lifetime ago. it was a genuinely shocking, awful incident when it happened, but sometimes the further you get away from the

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ultimately signed off as khan's trip to london which ended up with the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritts with a panel responsible for public protection. but today he was asked if he had been aware that mi5 had an open priority investigation into usman khan, who had recently been released from prison, and he said he didn't. he was asked, if he had known that, would it have twitched his antennae? he said it certainly would have done, had he been told that mis would have done, had he been told that mi5 had actually increased the priority of usman khan on his release from prison because of intelligence that he had been radicalising other prisoners and that he might possibly be planning an attack, he said no, and that if he had have known, it would have had a huge impact upon his decision—making. he said that the whole management process would have altered potentially. he was then also asked if he was aware that mi5 had been present at these multi—agency public protection meetings, when the case was being discussed, and he said that he had had no idea that mi5 were even present at those meet

zoe, thank you, following the inquest into the death of jack merritt and saskia jones.he pandemic closed so many workplaces. now, with lockdown easing, many businesses are planning for their employees to return — but will it be the same? 43 out of 50 firms questioned by the bbc, including some of the uk's biggest employers, said they don't plan to bring staff back to the office full time, that there will be a mixture of home and office working. ben thompson has been looking at how the world of work could change. back in the office after 1a months at home. i took on my role in march 2020. it was kind of a baptism by pandemic. for monica, who started her newjob just as the crisis began, getting back to the office is a chance to change how she and her team can work. when you come into the office, there are going to be open spaces, collaboration spaces. before, very much, we came into the office, we sat at our desks. sometimes we had meetings, but often, we were sitting at our desk. now we are reconfiguring to make sure we have spaces that facilitate that collaboration. tha

jack merritt and saskia jones were "unlawfully killed" by usman khan in 2019.

speaking at the inquest into the deaths of khan's victims jack merritt and saskia jones, ken skelton?— tell us more about what mr skelton has been saying, zoe? the inquest is heafina has been saying, zoe? the inquest is hearin: all has been saying, zoe? the inquest is hearing all day _ has been saying, zoe? the inquest is hearing all day today _ has been saying, zoe? the inquest is hearing all day today from _ has been saying, zoe? the inquest is hearing all day today from ken i hearing all day today from ken skelton, the probation officer who was responsible for managing usman khan in the community. but he didn't do thatjob on his own, he worked with other probation officers, and the police, and in fact they would all get together in meetings to discuss usman khan. there could be 15 of them in the room, and the purpose of those meetings was public protection, to protect the public from usman khan. and so, he was asked, why was it that at the three meetings leading up to the fishmongers' hall attack, why was it that the risk associated with usman khan attending that event was never di