LONDON DEFIANT IN FACE OF TERROR

DEATH TOLL RISES 75yearold Leslie Rhodes identified as 4th victim in attack

: There were renewed appeals for unity in a climate of Islamophobic hate crime after the Westminster attacker was identified as Khalid Masood, while Scotland Yard made two “further significant arrests” and the city returned to normal on Friday.

A 75-year-old man hit by Masood’s marauding car on Westminster Bridge died on Thursday evening and was identified as Leslie Rhodes.

A series of inter-faith meetings were held across London and elsewhere to ensure communal harmony.

A fund-raising site quickly raised more than £530,000 (the target was £250,000) for the family of police officer Keith Palmer, who was stabbed to death by Masood.

London mayor Sadiq Khan described Masood as “evil and twisted” , and said: “When Londoners face adversity we always pull together.”

The investigation into Wednesday’s terror attack that left five dead is called Operation Classific. Mark Rowley of Scotland Yard said: “Yesterday we named the dead terrorist as Khalid Masood — we stated he had a number of aliases — we now know his birth name was Adrian Russell Ajao.”

“We have made two further significant arrests overnight — one in the West Midlands and one in North West,” he said, adding 2,700 items were seized from searches, including “massive of amounts of computer data”.