The earliest picture of the Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood has emerged.
The photo is of Masood, then called Adrian Ajao, as a schoolboy with a football team in the early 1980s. Ajao grew up in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where the family attended church and he went to Huntleys secondary school, which has since closed down.
He stands sixth from the left in the back row with his arms folded in a group shot of the team after they played a charity match.
Stuart Knight, who went to school with Ajao, discovered on Friday that the teenager he had known as a bright, sport-loving and popular pupil, had become the Westminster attacker.
Knight, who runs a butchers in Tunbridge Wells, said: “I am really, really shocked. He was in my class. He was a smashing guy, really nice chap. The picture of us in the football team was after we did a 24-hour sponsored football match to raise money for the sports hall.
“We would have been about 14 years old. Everyone got on with Adrian, he was a lovely bloke. He was a bright student, he loved sport. He was in the rugby team.”
Knight said Ajao’s family – his mother, Janet, and stepfather, Phillip – were a great family.
Ajao, who took his stepfather’s surname after his mother’s marriage, left Huntleys school at 16 and Knight lost touch with him.
