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A passing-by kitchen porter has been praised after helping to tackle London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan - during his lunch break.

The man, who gave his name as Mohammed, remained calm and returned to wash dishes after joining other passersby to take on the convicted terrorist, who was released from jail in December 2018.

He is said to have interviewed by the police who responded to the scene and shot 28-year-old Khan dead on the pavement.

Mohammed's boss told Sun Online: "He was there. He held the guy down.

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"He was on his break He came back afterwards to work.

"He didn't say anything. He went back to work. He was washing dishes"

Another one who dived in to help was Polish-born chef, Luckasz, who ripped a 5ft whale tusk off a wall and charged at the knifeman .

He was being treated at the hospital for stab wounds after the attack.

The incident on Friday left 25-year-old Jack Merritt and a woman dead in the knife rampage on Friday afternoon, leaving three other people injured.

Killer Khan had been living in Stafford after he was released from prison on licence in December 2018.

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He was charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and other terrorism offences in late December 2010, along with eight others.

On February 1 2012, the nine pleaded guilty to various terrorist offences, with four admitting an al Qaida-inspired plot to detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange.

Woolwich Crown Court heard a hand-written target list found on a desk at one of the plotters' homes also included the names and addresses of the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London, then London mayor Boris Johnson , two rabbis, and the American Embassy in London.

Khan and two others, all from Stoke-on-Trent, admitted to a charge of engaging in conduct for the preparation of terrorism between November 1 and December 21 2010 - namely travelling to and attending operational meetings, fundraising for terrorist training, preparing to travel abroad and assisting others in travelling abroad.

The group was also linked to radical preacher Anjem Choudary by a mobile phone seized from an address of one of the plotters, which contained material relating to protests by the banned Al-Muhajiroun group he founded.