Widow of man slashed in face by Masood ‘sick’ to hear of attack

The widow of a man slashed in the face by Khalid Masood told how she felt “sick” after hearing he went on to commit the atrocity in Westminster.

Masood was jailed for two years over the 2000 attack on Piers Mott in the car park of the Crown and Thistle in Northiam, near Rye, East Sussex, according to local reports.

Mr Mott’s widow, Heather Mott, said Masood appeared to come out of jail “even worse” after leaving her husband with a scar that stretched across his face from above his eye.

Speaking at her home, she spoke of her shock at learning Massood, who then used the name Adrian Elms, was responsible for the Westminster attack.

She said: “It’s quite shocking. It puts a chill down your spine. It absolutely makes you feel sick.

“It makes you feel sick when you see the interviews on the television.

“And it makes you feel even sicker when you think, God, that was the guy who lived here. What a pity they didn’t realise he was a nutter.”

Masood “left Piers Mott with a threeinch gash on his left cheek” requiring 20 stitches after an altercation with “racial overtones” on July 16, the Brighton Argus reported at the time.

Hove Crown Court heard how, after an argument inside the pub where Elms had drunk four pints of beer, he went out and damaged Mr Mott’s car with the knife, before turning on the vehicle’s owner after he also came outside.

What a pity they didn’t realise he was a nutter