Latest: Gardaí investigating background of London Bridge attacker make second arrest
- Three London attackers named as, Youssef Zaghba, Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane
- Rachid Redouane, aka Rachid Elkhdar, carried an Irish-issued ID card. He married a British woman in Dublin in 2012 and lived in Rathmines
- Canadian woman Christine Archibald, 30, and James Mcmullan, 32, are the only two victims to be named so far
Gardaí investigating the background of London Bridge attacker Rahid Redouane have said that they have made a second arrest.
Officers said the man was arrested in an apartment in Wexford town at around 5pm this afternoon.
His arrest is believed to be in connection to documentation in his possession which has been linked to Rachid Radouane.
He is suspected of "obtaining money by deception" and is being held under the Theft and Fraud Offences Act 2001.
Theresa May has said she will rip up some human rights laws if they stop her from tackling terrorism.
As the election campaign entered its final hours, the Prime Minister told supporters she would change any laws that got in the way of preventing jihadis waging war on Britain.
Mrs May said: "As we see the threat changing, evolving becoming a more complex threat, we need to make sure that our police and security and intelligence agencies have the powers they need.
"I mean longer prison sentences for people convicted of terrorist offences. I mean making it easier for the authorities to deport foreign terrorist suspects back to their own countries.
"And I mean doing more to restrict the freedom and the movements of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they are a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court.
"And if our human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change the laws so we can do it.
"If I am elected as Prime Minister on Thursday, that work begins on Friday."
A teenager who went to the same gym as London Bridge knifeman Khuram Butt has said the terrorist seemed like the "last person" to carry out an attack.
Abdullah Mohamed, 18, said he had sparred with Butt at the Ummah Fitness Centre in Ilford, east London.
Butt would box at the gym and also occasionally sit on the front desk and take payment, Mr Mohamed added.
The gym has issued a statement saying Butt trained there "occasionally", but that they "do not know him well, nor did we see anything of concern".
Mr Mohamed, who visited the gym with his friend Ahmed Alassi, identified Butt from a police-issue mugshot and said: "I saw him here a few times.
"He just used to tell us the rules about the gym. He was a quiet guy.
"He did a little bit of boxing. He used to just help out little kids, like 10, 12-year-olds when they used to come over, and he sparred with us once or twice."
Asked if Butt seemed to be training in preparation for an attack, Mr Mohamed said there was "nothing" to suggest as much.
The teenager, from Ilford, said: "It was quite shocking because I found out there someone in this gym was involved two days ago, but I didn’t know who he was or his name or anything like that.
"I thought ’yeah okay, someone who was in the gym’, but I never expected him because when I saw his face it was really shocking.
"He’s a quiet, small, skinny guy. (He was) the last person to do something dangerous or physical."
The pair said Butt was religious but had not tried to impose his views, even interacting with other gym-users of different faiths.
Mr Alassi, 17, said: "He was a nice guy, quite religious. He was humble, he didn’t talk much.
"Just once or twice he told us to come pray, but apart from that."
Mr Mohamed added: "We used to pray inside the gym around 10.30pm because it’s Ramadan.
"He never asked us like that, he just said it out loud for everyone in the gym if they wanted to pray."
Butt even once urged Mr Alassi not to punch him in the face during a sparring session.
"He wasn’t aggressive," Mr Alassi, from Plaistow, said.
"Normally when we spar, we do body shots as well.
"I punched his face and he was like ’no, no body shots or nothing like that’ and he was saying ’just keep it on body because it’s not good to hit the face, keep it safe and do it for fun’."
Both teenagers said they had not seen Butt’s accomplices at the gym.
The Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has said the absolute focus of the Gardaí is on offering support to their counterparts in the UK.
Ms Fitzgerald says she wants to assure the public that everything required is being done.
It comes as police in London investigate the connection of one of the attackers to the Rathmines area of Dublin.
However as the situation is ongoing Minister Fitzgerald says neither her department nor Gardaí will be commenting on the movements of anyone who may have been involved in the attack.
The Justice Minister said: "The Garda authorities are in direct contact on a continuous basis with their UK security counterparts.
"The expert threat assessment is that while an attack here is possible it is unlikely, and there is no specific information in relation to any threat to Ireland from international terrorism.
"The level of threat from this source is kept under constant and active review by An Garda Síochána. The Gardaí have in place the necessary operational measures in terms of intelligence, a well-trained and equipped special intervention capability and other national support resources. They are supported in this, as needed, by the considerable skills and resources of the Defence Forces."
Little is known of Rachid Redouane among neighbours of a flat in Dublin where he claimed to have lived with his wife.
When he married British woman Charisse Ann O’Leary, on November 7 2012 in the city’s Civil Registration Service office, he gave as his address Grosvenor Square in Rathmines.
It is typical of south Dublin’s grand Victorian squares, with its two-storey over-basement redbrick terraces.
While many houses have been gentrified in recent years, it remains at the heart of a transient flatland which students and younger workers gravitate towards when they first move to the city.
"I’ve been living here for years now," said one neighbour who didn’t recognise Redouane.
"People come and go all the time, you wouldn’t know a lot of people living here."
The house in which Redouane claimed to have lived is divided into nine flats. It changed ownership last year.
Like the other houses in the square, it overlooks a lawn tennis and bowling club.
As neighbours went about their daily business, some were bemused or shocked to have learned a future killer was living in their midst.
"I know a couple of girls live in the house, they work in a local supermarket," said one who didn’t want to give his name.
"I heard the gardaí were around showing people pictures and and asking if they could identify a man in them.
"But no-one seems to have known him around here."
Just hours after the third London Bridge attacker was named as Moroccan-Italian Youssef Zaghba British Prime Minister has said police and MI5 need to review the way they handled intelligence on the attackers.
One of the attackers - Khuram Butt - was known to security services, but police say there wasn’t any evidence in 2015 to suggest he was planning an attack.
It’s emerged another was stopped in Italy last year apparently trying to reach Syria and another had lived in Rathmines in Dublin.
Theresa May said things needed to change.
"We need to ask how we can adapt our response to prevent these in the future," she said.
The British PM’s repsonse has not gone unchallenged, however, with many comentators suggesting she was merely trying to shift the blame from many of her own failings during her tenure as Home Secretary.
The third London Bridge attacker has been named as Moroccan-Italian Youssef Zaghba.
Scotland Yard confirmed the identity of the 22-year-old, from east London, and said he was not a police or MI5 "subject of interest", despite Italian media reports suggesting he was.
The news came as detectives arrested another suspect at an address in Barking, east London. The 27-year-old was held under the Terrorism Act shortly after 8am on Tuesday.
According to the Corriere della Sera newspaper Zaghba’s Italian mother lives in Bologna in the north of the country.
The paper said Zaghba was born in Fez in Morocco and had seasonal work in a London restaurant. It reported that he was stopped by Italian police in March 2016 at Bologna’s airport trying to fly to Turkey and then on to Syria.
Italian intelligence officials reportedly communicated this to their UK counterparts.
The name emerged as MI5 and police faced questions after it emerged one of the three perpetrators, Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, had been investigated two years before the atrocity.
The third London Bridge attacker has been named by Italian media as Moroccan-Italian Youssef Zaghba.
Earlier, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd rejected suggestions that a decline in the number of police officers had made the UK more vulnerable to terrorism.
Ms Rudd said it was "simply wrong" to blame the 20,000 fall in police numbers for the terrorist rampage at London Bridge and Borough Market.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said that Labour’s plans for an extra 10,000 police would "not necessarily" have prevented the attacks but the increased number of officers would have created better links with the community.
The two politicians clashed in a BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour debate in which Ms Rudd insisted that the reforms put in place had protected frontline policing despite the cuts in numbers.
Frontline gardaí have said that they have received no counter-terrorism training.
Following the London Bridge attack, the Garda Reprehensive Association (GRA) said that those who would respond first to any attack in Ireland have not been properly trained.
"As we’ve seen in London, the person on the scene was a frontline police officer, just using his baton," said Garda James Morrisroe, GRA representative for the Cavan-Monaghan division.
"He waded in and done his best, and he was aided by three other frontline police officers.
"So they’re the people that’s on the frontline. And you pose the question ’Have we received any counter-terrorism training in relation to recent events on the ground?’ - no, we haven’t."
Former Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says he is not surprised one of the London attackers had lived in Ireland.
He said there were concerns about Ireland being used as a base for attacks on the UK.
"[We were] always very worried that Ireland would be used as a stepping stone for attacks on the UK," he said.
"That was one thing, partiularly with the common travel and the relationship we have with the UK - the easy borders we have - we were always conscious of the fact that Ireland would be used as a stepping stone."
Officers investigating the deadly assault in which seven people died and dozens more were injured raided another house in London last night.
Police searched a property in Ilford, east London, after entering the address at around 1.30am.
Scotland Yard said that no arrests had been made as part of the search.
Two of the London Bridge terrorists have been named by police as it emerged one of the attackers was known to security services.
Khuram Shazad Butt, a 27-year-old British citizen born in Pakistan, and Rachid Redouane, who claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan, have already been identified.
Officers at Scotland Yard said they are working to identify the third accomplice, while 12 people who were arrested in east London have been released without charge.
Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer Mark Rowley said Butt was known to the security services, but there was no evidence of "attack planning" by him.
The father-of-two, who reportedly appeared on Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door, was investigated in 2015 but was part of a probe "prioritised in the lower echelons of our investigative work", Mr Rowley said.
The disclosure means that perpetrators in all three of the terrorist outrages to hit Britain this year had at some point appeared on the radar of authorities.
Butt, who reportedly went by the name Abu Zaitun, was known to neighbours by the nickname "Abs/z" and was allegedly an associate of radical hate preacher Anjem Choudary.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said Butt called him a "Murtad" - traitor in Arabic - when he confronted Choudary about his support of terrorism days after the murder of Lee Rigby in 2013.
He was on the radar of the police and MI5, and was reported to anti-terror hotline by a concerned member of the public
Security sources in Ireland confirmed Redouane, 30, married a British woman in Dublin in 2012 and lived in the Rathmines area of the city.
He also used the name Rachid Elkhdar, and claimed to be six years younger.
It is not clear when he came to the Republic or how long he stayed but it is believed he used Irish jurisdiction to get a European Union permit which allowed him to be in the UK.
An Irish security source described the murderer as having "extensive immigration history related to the UK".
Both killers lived in Barking, east London, and it is not yet known how the two men knew each other - with work to understand more about the trio and their connections still under way.
During the eight-minute long slaughter, the three knifemen ploughed into pedestrians on London Bridge using a van and went on to stab people in Borough Market with 12-inch knives.
The attackers, wearing fake suicide vests, were shot dead by eight officers after police unleashed a hail of 50 bullets upon them.
Thirty-six people remain in London hospitals, with 18 in a critical care.
As the nation collectively grieves following the third terror attack to hit the country in three months, a minute’s silence will observed on Tuesday at 11am in memory of the victims.
Londoner James McMullan, 32, and 30-year-old Canadian Christine Archibald were the first victims killed in the attack to be named.
An unnamed French national also died in the rampage, with two others missing, the French foreign affairs minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
Scotland Yard said one person is still believed to be missing, and that family liaison officers have been deployed to support the victims’ loved ones.
On Monday evening, a crowd of all ages and races stood quietly for an impeccably observed minute’s silence at a vigil a short walk away from the scene of Saturday’s bloodshed.
A book of condolence, already signed by Prime Minister Theresa May, will also open on Tuesday at Southwark Council’s headquarters in Tooley Street.
Mrs May states in her message that British values are "superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate".
The Islamic State terror group, also known as Daesh, has claimed the London Bridge rampage, while the attack has sparked fears Britain is in the grip of a spate of copycat incidents.
Detectives would like to hear from anyone with information about the men, particularly places they may have frequented and their movements in the days and hours before the attack.
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