Police and MI5 considered arresting a released terrorist two days before he went on a knife rampage in Streatham, an inquest has heard.
Sudesh Amman, 20, stabbed two people who survived on the London district’s high street before being shot dead by police in February 2020.
An inquest into his death heard that he was being monitored by police and MI5 because of his known aspirations to carry out a terror attack.
At a joint meeting on 31 January 2020, officers considered arresting Amman after surveillance revealed that he purchased items that could be made to make a fake suicide vest.
Detective Inspector Luke Williams, of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, said it was decided not to arrest Amman because “no offences were identified”.
Instead, police and MI5 drew up a series of “tipping points” that would spark different kinds of intervention.
