Fishmongers’ Hall terror attack victims unlawfully killed, inquest jury rules

Fishmongers’ Hall attack victims Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed unlawfully by convicted terrorist Usman Khan after a string of failures by authorities, an inquest jury has concluded (Metropolitan Police/PA)

A string of failures led to the deaths of two young people in a terror attack at London’s Fishmongers’ Hall after authorities were blinded by their killers’ “poster boy image”, an inquest jury has concluded.

Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were fatally stabbed by convicted terrorist Usman Khan at an alumni event put on by prisoner education programme Learning Together on November 29, 2019.