London Bridge terrorist joked to his wife about renaming UK airports after Islamic extremists

A LONDON Bridge terrorist joked to his wife about renaming UK airports after Islamic extremists, an inquest heard.

Zahrah Rehman, who married Khuram Butt in 2013, talked about she suspected her late husband might battle in Syria however mentioned she nevertheless "couldn't register" that he might have attacked his own country.

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Khuram Butt turned into the ringleader of the London Bridge attacksCredit: AP:associated Press

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police officers and participants of the emergency functions tend to someone injured within the June 2017 terror attackCredit: AFP or licensors

Ms Rehman turned into giving facts at the listening to two years after the June 2017 attacks that left eight peopled lifeless and forty eight injured.

Jurors on the historical Bailey have been shown a video recorded on a aircraft, where Butt and Ms Rehman spoke about airports including a "London airport" and Ataturk Airport in Istanbul being renamed after Islamic extremists.

Butt talked about renaming one after Omar Baku, founder of the banned community Al-Muhajiroun.

'A dull joke'

His wife cautioned naming yet another Abu Luqman, an alias used by means of Anjem Choudary.

tips to the coroner Jonathan Hough QC noted: "He was no longer suggesting that the airports should have names of figures like Muhammad or other Muslim holy men, he changed into suggesting that they all alternate their names to extremists. Did that now not predicament you?"

She noted: "now not at that time, I simply brushed it off as a stupid funny story."

Ms Rehman said she cautioned Choudary's alias "to stick with it the funny story".

The widow broke down at the ancient Bailey, saying she become nevertheless "now not in a position to study" pictures of the eight victims and had laid plants at the scene.

She denied she "closed her eyes" to his extremist views despite not reporting considerations to authorities - and stated she was mourning "with the leisure of London".

Ms Rehman instructed the historical Bailey her family took away the couple's passports after Butt bought flights to Turkey as a suspected path to Syria to join the Islamic State militant neighborhood.

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The attack left eight individuals useless and 48 injuredCredit: AFP or licensors

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Pakistani-born Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, was the ringleader of the horror attackCredit: AFP or licensors last KISS

She mentioned the remaining time she saw her husband, on June three, 2017 - hours before he launched the attack with Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22 - he gave her a "peck" on the cheek at their family unit home.

Hours later the trio had murdered Xavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, in an assault which lasted less than 10 minutes.

They used a van to launch the assault earlier than continuing their assault walking with 12in ceramic knives.

I couldn't register it that i used to be residing with him and he was within the equal condo as me and my children. and how may he do that? I couldn't register it

Khuram Butt's widow, Zahrah Rehman

Armed police stormed Butt's home at about 8am right here day and arrested Ms Rehman, she mentioned.

Sobbing, she instructed the inquest: "I couldn't register it that i used to be residing with him and he become within the equal house as me and my youngsters. and how could he try this? I couldn't register it.

"It took me a very long time to register it. Even now, or not it's been like two years, and i haven't been in a position to seem to be at the sufferer's photographs."

Mr Hough requested her: "What would you say if it changed into advised that you just closed your eyes to indications he could do anything awful?"

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Armed police stand over two suspects shot at the scene of a terror assault outdoor Borough Market in principal London on June 3, 2017Credit: Getty images - Getty

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Khuram Butt looked in a documentary called The Jihadi round the corner after he changed into barred from Barking mosqueCredit: PA:Press arrangementTURKEY 'holiday'

She mentioned Butt "in no way confirmed any signals" of undertaking an atrocity.

previous in her evidence on Thursday, Ms Rehman said her family seized their passports, along with her son's, after Butt bought tickets for a "break" collectively in Turkey.

She said she believed he became "so attracted to what changed into occurring in Syria that he become simply the usage of Turkey as an excuse".

"He didn't admit that he wanted to go to Syria however every person was definitely doubtful of his intentions," Ms Rehman spoke of.

every person concept they had got via to him and he made promises to everybody

Khuram Butt's widow, Zahrah Rehman

The tickets had been bought around the starting of 2016, when Butt all started associating with hate preacher Anjem Choudary, the inquest heard.

The court docket heard she had "a real problem that his plan turned into to move to Syria to fight" as he turned into placing around with at the moment had those views.

Mr Hough asked if she put "two and two collectively" and concept to "inform the authorities" about it.

She noted: "every person idea they'd received via to him and he made promises to all and sundry."

The couple, each with Pakistani heritage, had wed in an organized marriage on Christmas Day in 2013.extra video clips were proven to the court of their honeymoon in Pakistan, together with one of the pair riding a camel as Butt made Arabic statements linked to IS.

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He pointed out "Dawlat al-Islamiyah", which Mr Hough spoke of is "utilized in reference to IS".

Ms Rehman additionally pointed out that earlier than she married Butt her affect of him became a "gangster".

"I heard from my auntie he was truly charismatic, in reality assured, basically humorous," she informed the court docket. "I all the time had that idea of him, that he changed into a road boy, gangster, that variety of boy."

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