London Bridge attack: Boris Johnson vows to act on terror sentencing laws

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to review Britain's sentencing system after a convicted terrorist released early from prison stabbed two people to death and injured three in a London Bridge attack

Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said five people had been stabbed in all inside Fishmonger's Hall before members of the public pursued the attacker onto London Bridge. The three survivors remain in hospital.

Mr Basu added that Khan had been released under"an extensive list of licence conditions" with which he had previously been complying. Police on Saturday searched two properties in Stoke-on-Trent, Khan's home city, and Stafford in central England. The latest attack came less than two weeks before Britain's general election, and politicians temporarily suspended campaigning. "It does not make sense for us as a society to be putting people who have been convicted of terrorist offences... out on early release," Mr Johnson, who became Tory leader in July, said as he visited the scene.

"We argue that people should serve the tariff, serve the term, of which they are sentenced," the prime minister added, noting the Conservatives' manifesto called for a tougher sentencing regime.

 

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