Prime minister says government to announce plans for ‘fundamental changes’ to system for dealing with convicted terrorists
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The mother of the Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman has told Sky News he was a “nice, polite boy” and that she spoke to him just hours before the attack.
Haleema Faraz Khan said she had visited her son at a bail hostel on Thursday and he called her hours before the attack.
The prime minister paid tribute to the “speedy and brave” response by the police, but said:
The question that everybody has about the individual concerned is what was he doing out on automatic release and also why was there no system of scrutiny, no parole system to check whether he was really a suitable candidate for automatic early release. That is a very complex legal system.
We do think it’s time to tackle action to ensure that people, irrespective of the powers we are bringing in, people in the current system do not qualify automatically for early release, people convicted of terrorist act offences.