Mosque attacker’s legal aid bill tops £28,000

Darren Osborne, the Finsbury Park killer, racked up a legal aid bill of more than £28,000.

The unemployed loner was jailed for a minimum of 43 years for ploughing a hire van into a crowded pavement, killing Makram Ali, 51, on June 19 last year.

Osborne’s legal aid bill amounted to £28,407.03, a Freedom of Information request by the Press Association revealed. Solicitor costs for the nine-day trial at Woolwich Crown Court had not been claimed at the time of the request, the Legal Aid Agency said, meaning the bill could be higher.