On 29 November 2019, five people were stabbed, two of them fatally, in Central London. The attacker, Usman Khan, was fatally shot by City of London Police. Since Khan was considered a "success story" for a Cambridge University rehabilitation programme, and was featured as a case study by the University, he was attending an offender rehabilitation conference in Fishmongers' Hall. He th. BackgroundA conference on was held on 29 November 2019 in Fishmongers' Hall, at the northern end of Former. At 13:58 on 29 November, the police were called to after Khan, wearing a fake suicide vest, threatened to blow up the hall. Holding two kitchen knives taped to his wrists, he began stabbing people insi. Three of the victims were associated with Cambridge University's Learning Together prison-rehabilitation programme; two died and one was injured. The two who died from their stab wounds were Jack Merritt and Saski. The attacker was identified as Usman Khan, a 28-year-old British national from, of Pakistani descent. Khan appears to have left school with no qualifications after spending part of his late teens in Pa. The news of the attack was broadcast live on the by one of its reporters, John McManus, who witnessed members of the public fighting Khan as he crossed the bridge, and heard two shots being fired. London Bridge was closed until the early hours of the following Monday for forensic investigation of the scene. Two properties, in, where Khan lived, and in, were searched by police. An.