Father ‘had no idea’ his son was an extremist

TERRORIST Sudesh Amman recited the Koran to his father the day before his atrocity, it emerged yesterday.

Faraz Khan claimed he did not know his son had been radicalised, adding he had “nothing bad to say about him”.

He said he never thought the 20-year-old “would go this far”.

Amman was shot dead by police after grabbing a knife and attacking bystanders in Streatham High Road, south London, on Sunday.

He had just been released from prison and was under police surveillance while staying at a bail hostel.

Amman reportedly had up to 20 police tailing him just before the attack amid concern about his behaviour.

Radicalised

Mr Khan said yesterday: “He never talked to me about things like that. He said when his mother came to see him she brought him food – that’s the kind of things he talked about.

“I told him not to be naughty, be good, and he listened. I spoke to Sudesh one day before he passed away. I didn’t know he had become radicalised.”

Mr Khan, who lives in Sri Lanka, said his son would speak to him about religion and Islam: “He was reciting the Koran to me and he was translating that to me.

“He’s never spoken to me about these kind of things. He would never talk to me about naughty things. I heard they found a lot of things and I saw them on the news, but I never thought he would go this far.”

While in Belmarsh high-security prison, Amman reportedly told a fellow inmate that he wanted to murder an MP and copy the killing of Jo Cox.

He was jailed in December 2018 for three years and four months for possessing and distributing terrorist materials.