MI5 decided Masood ‘no security risk’
MI5 chose not to probe Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood despite his contact with terrorists, an inquest heard.
Links included suspects monitored by security services but an MI5 officer told the Old Bailey a 2010 decision to class Masood as no risk to national security was “sound”.
Identified as Witness L, he added: “There simply wasn’t enough intelligence for us to work on that would have allowed us to identify his plot.”
The court heard Masood came to the attention of MI5 in 2004, when his number was found in the phone of fertiliser bomb plotter Waheed Mahmood.
Masood, 52, killed five and injured more than 50 in the March 2017 atrocity. The inquest continues.