2020 Streatham stabbing
| 2020 Streatham stabbing | |
|---|---|
| Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe and terrorism in the United Kingdom | |
Streatham High Road (the site of the attack) in 2009 | |
| Location | Streatham, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°25′53″N 0°07′46″W / 51.431433°N 0.129356°W |
| Date | 2 February 2020 14:00 GMT (UTC±0) |
Attack type | Stabbing |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 1 (the attacker) |
| Injured | 3 (2 directly, 1 indirectly) |
| Assailant | Sudesh Mamoor Faraz Amman |
| Motive | Jihadism (Islamic terrorism) |
On 2 February 2020, two people were stabbed in Streatham, London in what police termed a terrorist incident. The attacker, Sudesh Amman, was shot dead by the police. A nearby woman was slightly injured by broken glass as a result. At the time Amman was under active counter-terrorism surveillance, after having recently being released from prison on licence; he had been convicted in 2018 for disseminating terrorist material. Following the attack, the British government introduced the Terrorist Offenders Bill, a piece of emergency legislation intended to prevent those convicted of terrorist offences from being released early from prison; this bill was approved by Parliament and came into force by the end of the month.