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Streatham terrorist's father: 'I told him not to be naughty' – Sky News, Sky.com

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Streatham terrorist's father: 'I told him not to be naughty' – Sky News, Sky.com
             

The father of Streatham terrorist Sudesh Amman has told Sky News he spoke to his son a day before the attack and told him “not to be naughty”.

Faraz Khan, who left the UK three months ago, said he learned about his son’s death from a cousin who messaged him.

Amman was under police surveillance when he stabbed two people in south London while wearing a fake suicide vest before he was shot dead by officers.

    

        

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“I spoke to Sudesh one day before he passed away. I didn’t know he had become radicalized,” said Mr Khan.

He said his son spoke to him about religion and Islam: “He was reciting the Quran to me and he was translating that to me.

“He’s never spoken to me about these kind of things. He would never talk to me about naughty things.

“I heard they found a lot of things and I saw them on the news, but I never thought he would go this far.”

 

  

      

Image:          Pictures of Sudesh Amman as a young boy         

  

  

Mr Khan said he had “nothing bad to say about him” and described Amman as “a very calm and very good boy”.

“He got angry,” he laughed. “Nothing else.”

Amman was jailed for three years and four months at the Old Bailey in central London in December 01575879 for possessing and distributing terrorist documents.

    

        

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The – year-old from Harrow, northwest London, was released from prison on January after serving time for spreading extremist material.

He had been staying at a bail hostel near to where he carried out Sunday’s attack.

Police said witness statements suggested he stole a knife from a shop to carry out the stabbings.

One man, in his s, remains in a serio us but stable condition. A teacher in her s who was also attacked has since been discharged from hospital.

    

        

                                       

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Mr Khan said he never visited his son when he was in prison, and was “shocked” when he found out about the stabbings.

“He never talked to me about things like that He said when his mother came to see him she brought him food – that’s the kind of things he talked about.

“I told him not to be naughty, be good, and he listened.”

  

      

Image:          Haleema Faraz Khan told Sky News her son Amman was radicalized online and in prison         

  

  

In a separate interview with Sky News, Sudesh Amman Amman’s mother said she visited her son at his bail hostel three days before the attack and spoke to him on the phone hours before the stabbings.

“He became more religious inside prison, that’s where I think he became radicalized,” she said.

“He was watching and listening to things online which brainwashed him. “

The government has said emergency legislation to stop convicted terrorists being released early will be presented.

Michael Gove told Sky News ministers want to change the law “as early as possible” in the wake of the Streatham attack.

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