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A terrorist responsible for an attack on London Bridge last year received a six-figure sum in legal aid over a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.

Reports suggest Usman Khan - who struck on London Bridge, killing two Brits - used up hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of taxpayer money in the courts.

Khan, from Staffordshire, was on licence from prison when he claimed the life of two young people, including Saskia Jones , 23, from Stratford upon Avon, in Warwickshire, in November.

His other victim was Jack Merritt, a Cambridge University graduate, as the Mirror reports.

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The Sun on Sunday reports in 2012 Khan was given £341,460 in aid to be represented at court, including £217,324 for his barrister and £124,136 for a solicitor.

The 28-year-old was also given £12,000 to successfully appeal his sentence after being sentenced to indeterminate detention with a minimum custodial jail term of eight years in 2012.

He was free on licence from prison and in November, before he stabbed two people to death and injured three others on London Bridge. Khan was shot dead by armed police.

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He pleaded guilty to one count of 'engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism'.

In 2013, Khan's lawyers won in an appeal and Khan was given a term with a definitive end point.

Appeal judges imposed an extended sentence of 21 years which comprised a custodial element of 16 years and a five-year 'extension period'.

Khan was given £2,100 for a judicial review.

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At the time the legal aid handout was slammed by politicians such as Mid Derbyshire Tory MP Pauline Latham.

Mrs Latham said: "That's a huge sum of money. It's very shocking.

"The appeal should never have been allowed to succeed. He shouldn't have been allowed out.

"For him then to have all of this funded by the taxpayer is a disgrace."

Khan was released from prison on licence in December 2018, halfway through a 16-year prison sentence, when he carried out the attack at a prisoner rehabilitation event at Fishmonger's Hall in central London.

He attacked Cambridge University graduates Jack Meritt, 25, and Saskia, 23 before he was tackled by members of the public and later shot dead by the police.