The prisoner rehabilitation programme that saw a convicted terrorist kill two young volunteers by London Bridge has been scrapped.
The University of Cambridge scheme Learning Together put on the Fishmongers’ Hall event in November 2019, where Usman Khan stabbed to death Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23.
Khan was later confronted by other event attendees and shot to death by police on London Bridge.
Security services and event organisers were later criticised by an inquest for not seeing that Khan posed a threat.
Mr Merritt’s father said that it was obvious that “the arrangements put in place for managing Usman Khan after his release from prison in 2019 were not fit for purpose.”
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Professor Stephen J Toope, Cambridge’s vice-chancellor, said: “The Learning Together Programme helped change many lives for the better. But the London Bridge tragedy caused unimaginable grief. As a result, an independent review recommended that the programme be halted. The University Council and General Board took the decision to follow that recommendation.
“The consequences of violence continue to ripple outwards and create further harm. Today I am thinking again of the families and friends of Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, and the Learning Together community, who continue to suffer from the events of that dreadful day.”