Muslim women join hands at London attack site in show of solidarity

Meanwhile, police say no evidence has been found of links between Masood and so-called Islamic State or al-Qaeda.

But the 52-year-old was not under investigation when he sped across Westminster Bridge on Wednesday, plowing down pedestrians with a hired auto before running into the parliamentary grounds and fatally stabbing an unarmed policeman.

The 52-year-old teacher was shot dead by a policeman after stabbing PC Keith Palmer to death.

Earlier, the family of an American tourist who was killed in the attack said they bear no ill-will over the incident.

Masood He carried out his attack within 82 seconds.

“There has been much speculation about who Masood was in contact with immediately prior to the attack”, Basu said.

Londoner Mary Bennett said: “I am here to show that in a quiet way we continue to go where we like and do what we like in London”.

They were injured as the attacker plowed through crowds walking across Westminster Bridge.

Police have arrested a 30-year-old man in Birmingham in connection with last week’s attack on parliament, “on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts”, Metropolitan Police said Sunday. Nine of the suspects were released without further action. Masood had a track record of criminal convictions for assault and gun possession but was not on any lists of known extremists.

A WhatsApp spokeswoman said the company was “horrified at the attack” and was co-operating with the investigation.

At birth, he was registered in Dartford, Kent, as Adrian Elms, but later took his stepfather’s name becoming Adrian Ajao in childhood.

Masood taught English in Saudi Arabia from November 2005 to November 2006 and again from April 2008 to April 2009, a Saudi Embassy statement released late Friday said.

Unlike a text message or phone call sent through a phone carrier, Mr Phair said national security agencies would need a different approach to obtain the information from WhatsApp, such as software that records key strokes. Sombre-looking lawmakers in a packed House of Commons chamber bowed their heads and police officers also marked the silence standing outside the headquarters of London’s Metropolitan Police nearby. Those killed in the incident were identified as Kurt Cochran, 54, from Utah, British school administrator Aysha Frade, 43, 48-year-old Constable Keith Palmer and 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes, from south London. But Basu said he was not a “subject of interest” for counterterrorism police or the intelligence services before last week’s attack.

“The police have been a constant, unwavering support at this very hard time”.