An eyewitness has described the stabbing at London Central Mosque on Thursday as '30 seconds of mayhem'.

The mosque’s muazzin, who calls others to prayer, was stabbed in the neck in front of hundreds of onlookers, before his alleged attacker was wrestled to the ground by worshippers.

The Metropolitan police, who have arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder, said they were not treating the incident as terror-related