Mystery of the third killer
THE third attacker remains unnamed more than two days after he joined in a murderous rampage with Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism policeman, said that inquiries are “ongoing to confirm the identity” of Butt and Redouane’s accomplice.
However, counter-terrorism sources said they were almost certain of his identity and an announcement of his name was being delayed because he was not a British national.
The disclosure that he is not British will raise questions about how recently he moved to the UK and under what circumstances he had entered the country.
Witnesses to the knife rampage through Borough Market said that two of the attackers appeared to be of Mediterranean appearance.
That will raise the possibility that the third man was another North African, like Redouane.
Police yesterday continued to raid and search addresses across east London and it was not clear if any of these were linked to the third attacker.
His foreign nationality will also raise the prospect that he had links to a terror network or extremists outside the country before he arrived in the UK.