Tributes were paid today to a father of five who died in his daughter’s arms after being mown down by a van in the terror attack near the Finsbury Park Mosque.

Makram Ali, 51, had celebrated Father’s Day hours before he slipped and fell while walking home from night prayers at the Muslim Welfare House shortly after midnight yesterday.

While friends checked his pulse, he was crushed when Darren Osborne allegedly drove into the group on the pavement in a 3.5-ton rented van. Ten others were injured.

His daughter, who has not been named, ran from their nearby home. She said he was alive and conscious when she arrived but died of his injuries in the street.

Today, relative Sultan Ahmed said: “He was a good family man. He had a routine going to prayers, he was just a very nice person. His daughter and close family are distraught.”

Mr Ahmed’s uncle, Abdul Matin Choudhury suffered arm and shoulder injuries, after being hit by the van.

Hirsiyo Ali, 72, was walking home with a friend from the mosque when she was hit, suffering cracked ribs. A disabled victim escaped with his life after his deaf friend pushed his wheelchair out of the van’s way.

An Algerian man aged about 25 suffered broken ribs and internal injuries and a mother of three remains in a coma and has two broken legs.

Osborne, 47, from Cardiff, was arrested at the scene. His nephew Ellis Osborne, 26, said: “We are devastated for the families. Our hearts go out to the people who have been injured.”

Neighbours said the unemployed mechanic had separated from his wife and was living in a tent in woods.