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Streatham terrorist Sudesh Amman yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he stabbed two innocent people during a 62-second rampage in South London before he was shot dead by armed police, an undercover surveillance who chased the Islamist fanatic told jurors today.
The officer, referred to only as BX87 and who cannot be identified for legal reasons, became choked with emotion as he described how Amman, 20, came to a stop outside a Boots store in Streatham High Road after stealing an 8in carving knife and turned on his pursuer….
Amman, raised in Coventry and Birmingham before moving to Harrow in North-West London, had grabbed a knife from the display in the Low Price hardware store while wearing a fake suicide belt before stabbing two passersby – both of whom survived – in the attack on February 2 last year.
He had been released from Belmarsh jail just 10 days before he committed the atrocity after serving half of a 40-month sentence for a string of terror offences, and was put under surveillance amid police and MI5 upon his release amid fears that he was preparing an attack.
On the day of the rampage, Amman was being watched by nine officers from the Metropolitan Police MO3 surveillance branch. BX87 had abandoned his car to follow Amman on foot as he approached Streatham High Road when he heard over the radio that Amman had entered a shop.
His colleague, BX89, described the Low Price Store as a ‘hardware store that sells everything’ and added: ‘It will definitely sell knives. I immediately started walking back towards Streatham High Road. I realised my team leader would request that someone went into the shop with Mr Amman and he did exactly that.’
The officer got within 20m of the store when he heard what he called a ‘commotion’. Amman was then seen running out the store with ‘a really large knife’ in his right hand before plunging the blade into a female passerby while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is Great]….
The officer, referred to only as BX87 and who cannot be identified for legal reasons, became choked with emotion as he described how Amman, 20, came to a stop outside a Boots store in Streatham High Road after stealing an 8in carving knife and turned on his pursuer….
Amman, raised in Coventry and Birmingham before moving to Harrow in North-West London, had grabbed a knife from the display in the Low Price hardware store while wearing a fake suicide belt before stabbing two passersby – both of whom survived – in the attack on February 2 last year.
He had been released from Belmarsh jail just 10 days before he committed the atrocity after serving half of a 40-month sentence for a string of terror offences, and was put under surveillance amid police and MI5 upon his release amid fears that he was preparing an attack.
On the day of the rampage, Amman was being watched by nine officers from the Metropolitan Police MO3 surveillance branch. BX87 had abandoned his car to follow Amman on foot as he approached Streatham High Road when he heard over the radio that Amman had entered a shop.
His colleague, BX89, described the Low Price Store as a ‘hardware store that sells everything’ and added: ‘It will definitely sell knives. I immediately started walking back towards Streatham High Road. I realised my team leader would request that someone went into the shop with Mr Amman and he did exactly that.’
The officer got within 20m of the store when he heard what he called a ‘commotion’. Amman was then seen running out the store with ‘a really large knife’ in his right hand before plunging the blade into a female passerby while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is Great]….
