mr shahid denies he knew what the three men were plotting.t richard lister. just after midnight, a week before the carnage on london bridge and borough market, the three attackers are outside the ummah fitness centre in east london. it's a place they know well. khuram butt, the ringleader, worked in the ummah fitness centre for months, and all three are thought to have trained there. but the owner of this gym, sajeel shahid, repeatedly refused to be interviewed by police in the aftermath of the attacks, despite the fact that he had another connection to butt as well. mr shahid founded this islamic school nearby, where butt taught the koran to children aged between three and seven. and analysis of the attackers' phones showed dozens of calls and hundreds of texts between butt and mr shahid. today in court, though, he gave his side of the story. dominic adamson represents one of the bereaved families and said... mr shahid, whose face we can't show for legal reasons, said... mr shahid said that his colleagues at the gym also used his phone, and

mr shahid, whose face we can't show for legal reasons, said... the gym also used his phone, and any communications with butt on it would have been about his work there. he was asked whether he'd hand it over to police for examination, but so far he has declined. police say they found no other links between mr shahid and the attackers after the carnage two years ago, and in court today he condemned it, saying if he'd known what they were up to, he'd have called the police. the number of cases being investigated in a review of maternity services at shrewsbury and telford nhs trust has more than doubled to almost 600. the new cases are understood to include still births, and the deaths of babies whose mothers are in the final stages of labour. michael buchanan is at one of the trust's hospitals, the princess royal in telford. where did these new cases come from? these came out after one of the regulators, nhs improvement, told the trust to hand over all the incidents in maternity services baking back —— dating back to 1998. it is undoubtedly the cas

mr shahid said they were simply to do with gym business. mobile phone. mr shahid said he would have to check with his lawyer but he would not delete any material on that mobile phone. we also began to evidence from khuram butt‘s sister, who described him as a very ordinary boy growing up, outgoing, into sports and health and fitness and things began to change in around 2012 point he became more religious and started encouraging her to cover her head and said she should behave as a good islamic mother. she described that asa islamic mother. she described that as a dramatic change in his behaviour in those years around 2012. this inquest it into the deaths of the eight people killed on the london bridge attacks and borough market in 2017, now in the eighth week of evidence here, that is due to continue this afternoon and tomorrow. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: in the race for the tory leadership, jeremy hunt tells rival borisjohnson ‘not to be a coward' — and debate with him on tv this week. lord prescott — the form

mr shahid denies he knew what the three men were plotting.ter midnight, a week before the carnage on london bridge and borough market, the three attackers are outside the ummah fitness centre in east london. it's a place they know well. khuram butt, the ringleader, worked in the ummah fitness centre for months, and all three are thought to have trained there. but the owner of this gym, sajeel shahid, repeatedly refused to be interviewed by police in the aftermath of the attacks, despite the fact that he had another connection to butt as well. mr shahid founded this islamic school nearby, where butt taught the koran to children aged between three and seven. and analysis of the attackers' phones showed dozens of calls and hundreds of texts between butt and mrshahid. today in court, though, he gave his side of the story. dominic adamson represents one of the bereaved families and said... mr shahid, whose face we can't show for legal reasons, said... mr shahid said that his colleagues at the gym also used his phone, and any communications with bu

the court also heard that mr shahid set upa the court also heard that mr shahid set up a religious schoollunteered to teach the koran. in court mr shahid denied the allegations he has faced in the past that he ran terrorist training camps in pakistan, he said that simply was not true. when asked about his relationship specifically was koran but he said that he was not aware of his extremist views, he said he personally had no extremist views and that he himself was average by the attacks on london bridge and borough market. —— when asked about his relationship with khuram butt. he was also questioned in court about hundreds of text messages between his mobile phone and a mobile phone belonging to khuram butt in the months leading up to the attack. he said they were purely to do with the business of the gym, where mr but was a volunteer. until today mr shahid has refused to co—operate with the investigation into the attacks. but before he left the stand he said he would be in principle happy with the police examining his mobile phone, he promised not to delete any material on there but we