A London jury on Wednesday convicted a man of attempted murder after he tried to mow down cyclists, pedestrians and police with his car outside the British parliament last year, in an attack prosecutors said had a terrorist motive.
The counter-terrorism division at England's Crown Prosecution Service said it was reasonable to assume he had a terrorist motive. The court heard that Khater -- who was born in Sudan and granted asylum in Britain in 2010 -- drove around Parliament Square several times before veering off at speed to strike a jogger.
"His driving was so precise and determined that it was difficult for skilled accident investigators to repeat the manoeuvre he carried out," Hopkins said.It emerged that the resident of Birmingham in central England had unsuccessfully applied for a fast-track British passport the previous day, before driving straight to London.