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Westminster attacker 'drove up to 76mph' during attack | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Police believe Khalid Masood was driving up to 76mph on Westminster Bridge where he killed three people, BBC London has learned. | |
Masood also injured 50 people when he drove a car into pedestrians last Wednesday. | |
He then fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead by police - all within 82 seconds. | |
The Metropolitan Police Force said it will not comment on this element of its ongoing investigation. | |
It is understood the car Masood used was seen driving in the area around Westminster Bridge at some point before the attack. | |
It may have been on the day or before that, although it remains unclear what the purpose of this was. | |
Masood's victims were PC Keith Palmer - who was stabbed outside the Houses of Parliament - Aysha Frade, who was in her 40s and worked at a London sixth-form college, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, from south London. | |
On Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said they believed Masood acted alone but they were also "determined" to find out whether he had been inspired by terrorist propaganda. | |
However, Scotland Yard said it was possible they would "never understand why he did this". | |
It is understood Masood's phone connected with messaging app WhatsApp minutes before the attack, which police say started at 14:40 GMT and lasted just 82 seconds. | |
An image of Masood's Whatsapp status shows that he was "last seen" on the messaging service at 14:37. | |
The revelations have prompted a debate about the responsibilities of messaging services. | |
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said encrypted messages must be accessible to intelligence services fighting terror, stressing there must be "no place for terrorists to hide". | |
She is holding talks with other EU ministers in Brussels to discuss ways of preventing further attacks and will later this week meet technology firms. | |
A WhatsApp spokeswoman said the company was "horrified at the attack" and was co-operating with the investigation. | |
82-second attack |