Terrorist car was as ‘lethal as knife or gun’ in attack

Terrorist Khalid Masood’s rented 4x4 was as “lethal as a knife or a gun” when he ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, an inquest has heard.

Kurt Cochran, 54, Leslie Rhodes, 75, Aysha Frade, 44, and Andreea Cristea, 31, were killed after being hit by the Hyundai Tucson being driven by Masood, 52. Consultant pathologist Ashley Fegan-earl described the range of serious injuries suffered after the vehicle was deliberately used as a weapon, adding: “It is as lethal as a knife or a gun.”

Masood crashed his car before stabbing Pc Keith Palmer, 48, to death at the gates to the Palace of Westminster before being shot three times by a plainclothes police officer on 22 March. The inquest at the Old Bailey yesterday heard Mr Cochran, Mr Rhodes and Ms Frade, suffered “unsurvivable” injuries.