One of the victims of the Streatham terror attack is a popular nursery school teacher, it has emerged.

Monika Luftner has been identified as one of the two people stabbed by the Islamist extremist Sudesh Amman during his 60-second rampage on a busy south London high street on Sunday.

The 51-year-old teacher, who works at St Bede’s Catholic infant and nursery school in Lambeth, is understood to have been caught up in the attack as she headed home after meeting friends for coffee.

She sustained what police described as “non-life-threatening injuries”, was discharged from hospital on Sunday evening and is now recovering. Lambeth council, commenting on behalf of St Bede’s, confirmed her identity to the Guardian on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for St Bede’s said: “We can confirm a member of staff was injured in Sunday’s terror-related incident in Streatham. She is now making a good recovery after experiencing a shocking attack.”

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A man in his 40s was left fighting for his life but is now in a stable condition after receiving treatment, Scotland Yard confirmed. He is understood to still be in hospital.

A third person, a woman in her 20s, sustained minor injuries believed to have been caused by fragments of glass when police shot Amman dead. She has also been discharged.

Amman struck just 10 days after being released automatically halfway through a sentence of three years and four months for possessing and spreading terrorist material. He was under 24-hour police surveillance when he launched his attack, wearing a fake suicide vest, and was intercepted a minute after he stole a knife from a shop and began stabbing victims in a busy Streatham high street.

He had been staying at a hostel in the area since his release on 23 January. His mother said she had spoken to him on the phone just hours before the attack, describing him as “normal”.

It comes as Amman’s father revealed that he spoke to his son the day before the attack — warning him “not to be naughty”.

Faraz Khan, who said he left the UK three months ago, told Sky News from Sri Lanka: “I spoke to Sudesh one day before he passed away. I didn’t know he had become radicalised.”

He added: “I told him not to be naughty, be good, and he listened.”

Amman would speak to him about religion, Khan confirmed, adding: “He was reciting the Qur’an to me and he was translating that to me. He’s never spoken to me about these kind of things. He would never talk to me about naughty things. I heard they found a lot of things and I saw them on the news, but I never thought he would go this far.”

Khan, who never visited his son in prison during his sentence for a terrorism-related offence, said he was shocked when he heard of the attack. But he refused to condemn Amman, saying he had “nothing bad to say about him”, describing him as “a very calm and very good boy”.

“He got angry,” he added. “Nothing else.”



