The father of four suspected of mowing down a group of worshippers outside a Finsbury park mosque was a "complex" and "troubled" individual known for “flipping his lid” when he drank too much, it has been claimed, as his mother said he is "no terrorist".

Darren Osborne, 47, is being held in custody on suspicion of terror offences including attempted murder. He is alleged to have expressed increasingly antagonistic views towards Muslims in the weeks since the London Bridge atrocity.

After ploughing down a group of men as they left Ramadan prayers, he is alleged to have rammed his hired van into bollards before jumping out and shouting “I'm going to kill all Muslims - I did my bit”.