One of three London Bridge attackers, Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Italian Moroccan national, was allowed into the United Kingdom when he arrived at London's Stansted airport from Bologna in January even though he was on an European Union watch list, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
The trio drove a van from London Bridge into pedestrians then got out and began stabbing people in an attack that left seven people dead and 48 injured.
All three terrorists were killed within eight minutes of the first call made to emergency services.
Kirsty Boden, an Australian nurse working in London, was named as one of the victims.
Thirty-six people remain in London hospitals, with 18 in a critical care.
Police said Zaghba was an Italian national of Moroccan descent, living in east London.
The Islamic State group has said its "fighters" carried out the attack. London police, however, said that Zaghba "was not a police or MI5 subject of interest", referring to Britain's domestic intelligence agency. He was a keen supporter of Arsenal football club and had featured in the Channel 4 documentary, The Jihadis Next Door. But he was apparently deemed not to pose an immediate risk, and he was not one of the roughly 500 people at the center of active terrorism investigations.
London's Metropolitan Police on Tuesday issued a public appeal for information about him.
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Butt became increasing religious shortly before his marriage in 2013, said Nasir Dar, a maternal uncle of his, in an interview in Jhelum, Pakistan.
"I feel like I did what any other person would have done", he said.
"Our religion does not allow killing people", he said.
Eight people are confirmed to have died and forty-eight were hospitalised in the attack.
Butt had been a key player in terrorist group al-Muhajiroun since at least 2009 and had been mentioned in an Federal Bureau of Investigation report in 2015, the paper reported.
The families of the three London attackers have condemned their actions.
A police officer who was stabbed in the eye trying to stop the attackers with his baton said Thursday he was sorry he couldn't do more.
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