London Marathon boss says event will be safe as security ramped up

London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel is confident Sunday’s race will be safe and live up to its reputation as an event at which “humanity can be united”.

Bitel announced in the wake of the Boston marathon bombings that race organisers and the Metropolitan Police had decided to employ additional security measures around the event.

Although he would not go into specific detail, Bitel described the Metropolitan Police as the best in the world at handling terror threats.