London attacker former teacher in Saudi Arabia: Report

The man who carried out a deadly car ramming and stabbing attack near the UK Houses of Parliament was a former English teacher working at the institution controlling Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation, a report says.

Citing a copy of Khalid Masood’s CV, Britain’s The Sun daily made the revelation in a report published on Friday.

Masood, who reportedly received his first conviction in 1983 at the age of 19, was found guilty in a string of other criminal cases until 2003, a year before he gained a TESOL certificate that allowed him to take up teaching positions in the Saudi city of Yanbu in 2005 and subsequently at Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in Jeddah.

Five months after his return to the UK in spring 2009, he started working as a “senior English teacher” at a TEFL college in Luton.

A handout picture released by the British Metropolitan Police Service in London on March 24, 2017 shows Khalid Masood (AKA Adrian Elms,…

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