London Bridge attack: MI5 agent defends security services

MI5’s investigators did not grasp Khuram Butt’s growing association with Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zagbha, seen here. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PAIn the environment of a high security Old Bailey courtroom, a senior MI5 officer offered his “profound personal sympathies” to the families of the eight victims of the London Bridge terror attack as he gave evidence at the inquest into their deaths. But the man identifiable only as Witness L stopped short of making a ful