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UK police name third London attacker, Italy says was flagged in advance

LONDON, (Reuters) - Police yesterday named the third of the jihadis who killed seven people in a knife and van attack in London, someone an Italian prosecutor said had been flagged to British authorities as a potential risk after he moved to England last year.

The attack has eclipsed other issues in the political campaign for tomorrow’s parliamentary election, with both the ruling Conservatives and opposition Labour Party battling to defend their records on security.

Prime Minister Theresa May, facing accusations she starved police of resources, said she could seek to overturn human rights protections that make it hard to deport or detain suspected militants when there is insufficient evidence them.

The revelation that at least one of Saturday’s attackers, Khuram Butt, was known to security services has raised concerns that they lack the resources to prevent attacks.

Butt, a 27-year-old British national born in Pakistan, had appeared in a British TV documentary broadcast last year called “The Jihadis Next Door”.

Saturday night’s rampage, in which the three men drove into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in the bustling Borough Market area, was Britain’s third Islamist attack in as many months.

The identity of the third attacker was revealed by police yesterday as Youssef Zaghba, a 22-yearold who had not been a to prosecute