Terror killer was schoolboy from Tunbridge Wells

The jihadist who killed four people when he ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and stabbed a police officer outside parliament was raised in Tunbridge Wells.

Khalid Masood, born Adrian Elms in Dartford on Christmas Day 1964, went to the former Huntleys Secondary School for Boys in Culverden Down, where he was reportedly popular but also experienced racism.

The family – Masood, his mother, Janet, stepfather Philip and two stepbrothers – lived in St James’ Park. Janet was very active in the local church.

He got into trouble over the years and received his first conviction at the age of 19 for criminal damage but eventually settled down after meeting his first wife, Jane Harvey, at The Roebuck in the town’s Camden Road. According to friends, Masood complained when the pub later became Tunbridge Wells Mosque.

He moved to Northiam, near Rye, with the successful businesswoman and had two daughters but was jailed for two years in 2000 after slashing a local landlord’s face.

While in prison, Masood is thought to have been radicalised and his relationship with Miss Harvey, who now lives back in Tunbridge Wells with her 18-year-old daughter, broke down and he moved to Eastbourne.

While in the seaside town he was jailed again in 2003 for possession of a knife but was acquitted of slashing another man across the face.

A year later he married Far- zana Malik, of Gillingham, at Medway Register Office but their relationship soon ended due to his violent and controlling behaviour.

Since then, Masood has twice travelled to Saudi Arabia and lived in Luton, east London and Birmingham.

His eldest daughter moved in with him having changed her name and converted to Islam.

Last Wednesday Masood drove a hired four-by-four Hyundai into crowds just before 3pm, injuring more than 50 people and killing American tourist Kurt Cochran, teacher Aysha Frade and 75-year-old retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes before fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer,

The 52-year-old is thought to have acted alone but Isis declared him a “soldier” of their cause and 12 people have been arrested in connection with the attack.