Westminster killer ‘staged dummy run’

THE London terror attacker reportedly made a dummy run before his lethal 82-second rampage.

According to GPS information from a car used by Adrian Ajao, also known as Khalid Masood, he travelled over Westminster Bridge in the days before he killed four people and injured more than 50.

Last night Scotland Yard refused to comment on the ongoing investigation.

The 52-year-old, who used a Hyundai 4x4 hired from a branch of rental firm Enterprise in Solihull, visited the scene beforehand, according to security sources.

The Isil-inspired terrorist lied to his family that he was flying to Saudi Arabia before disappearing to prepare for the attack.

Two security officials told the Wall Street Journal that GPS tracking of his car showed it was driven across Westminster Bridge and approached Parliament on Saturday, Mar 18.

Days later he drove into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing a mother of two, an American tourist and a south London pensioner before crashing the hire car and stabbing to death Pc Keith Palmer, a 48-year-old husband and father.

His victims on the bridge were 43-year-old Briton Aysha Frade, Kurt Cochran, 54, from Utah, and 75-yearold Leslie Rhodes.

Security sources told the paper his movements showed he carefully prepared the attack, rather than making a last-minute decision beforehand.

But his actions also suggest that he was not a trained terrorist as he would have trialled the deadly mission “on the same day of the week, or at least a weekday, to ensure the security measures and traffic were similar” as the day of the attack, one official said.

It was also alleged that Ajao had travelled to Brighton and checked into the Preston Park Hotel on the day before the dummy run.