Finsbury Park van attack: why an imam saved a terror suspect

Mohammed Mahmoud made headlines when he stood guard over a suspect after a van was driven into Muslims on the street. He talks about the aftermath of that night and his problem with being called a heroOn a humid evening in June, Mohammed Mahmoud, the 31-year-old imam of the Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park, north London, finished tarawih, the evening prayer performed during Ramadan. It was nearly midnight when he returned to his first-floor office. “I hadn’t made the tea yet whe