Terrorist once turned into ‘Incredible Hulk’

THE mother of Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood said he was an angry person who once turned into the “Incredible Hulk” during a row over a chicken dinner.

Masood, 52, was shot dead by police after stabbing PC Palmer, 48, to death and ploughing into Kurt Cochran, 54, Leslie Rhodes, 75, Aysha Frade, 44, and Andreea Cristea, 31, on Westminster Bridge in a rented 4x4.

His mother, Janet Ajao, gave evidence at the inquests into his victims’ deaths yesterday from underneath the public gallery in the Old Bailey’s Court One.

She said in a witness statement that Masood was an “angry person who would get a look in his eyes”.

“I think he’s always been a fiery, angry personality,” she told the inquest. “He was never angry with me and the [only] time that he was, he was using my address, where I currently live, as a bail address, and he had gone down into town. He was drinking and he came home merry.”

Mrs Ajao said she was making dinner and asked her son how many pieces of chicken he wanted.

“But he was still merry and I asked a second time and tossed a chicken over the kitchen table and that’s when he went.”

“I think I referred to him as the Incredible Hulk because it was like he exploded,” Mrs Ajao continued.

“My husband went, ‘It’s all right, it’s all right,’ and I just grabbed hold of his arm because I didn’t want it to become a violent thing.”

Mrs Ajao told the court that her son could be violent when he had been drinking.

The court heard that after he became a father of two and lived with his partner Jane Harvey, he was arrested a number of times.

His mother said: “This was down to drinking. I’m ashamed to say I think he quite enjoyed drinking and fighting.”

Mrs Ajao said that on a few occasions Ms Harvey asked her to come round because Masood had come home shouting.

“I always sat on the settee next to Jane to give her support.”

She told the court how her son would go “on and on and on” about Islam after he converted in prison.

She said: “He never stopped talking about it. On and on and on.

“And he would phone and I would say ‘how are you, how are things, how are the children?.’ He went on and on. I would put the phone down, make a cup of tea, come back and he would still be talking.”

She said he never expressed extremist views to her or hostility or hatred toward others.