Hidden away in the corner of a remote hillside cemetery, this is the final resting place for London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan.
After the inquest into his horrific 2019 Fishmongers’ Hall attack concluded on Thursday that he was lawfully killed, the 28-year-old’s grave nearly 4,000 miles away is pictured here for the first time.
The hardened British-born jihadist murdered two people and wounded three others before being shot dead by police.
MailOnline tracked down the grave to his family’s ancestral village in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir where wary locals try and keep outsiders away from the grave, which is guarded by Pakistani intelligence officials as well as villagers.
Khan’s family condemned his bloody rampage, but the headstone carries a message from his grieving father Taaj Muhammad Khan, saying: ‘Forever these eyes will desirously long to see you.’
This is the tomb of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan who was laid to rest in the village of Kajlani, in Azad Kashmir, in 2019
MailOnline tracked down the grave his family’s ancestral village where wary locals try and keep outsiders away from the site
Khan’s headstone includes a message from his father and the words: ‘Bismillah Irrahman Irrahim (In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)’. It goes on: ‘Usman Ahmed Khan son of Taaj Muhammad Khan. Date of death: 29 November 2019.’
Khan (pictured), 28, murdered two people and wounded three other in his horrific attack at London Bridge in 2019
Referring to his son’s savagery before he was gunned down by City of London Police, he adds: ‘This heart had no idea that you would depart like that.’
Khan displayed no such humanity to his victims, Cambridge University graduates Saskia Jones, 23, and 25-year-old Jack Merritt, who were trying to help him re-build his life and move on from his jihadist views.
The Midlands-based fanatic – well-known to the security services – was released from jail on licence in 2018, halfway through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences and was attending a prisoner rehabilitation programme.
He launched his terror attack near London Bridge on November 29, 2019, nearly a year after his release.
On Thursday an inquest jury ruled that police believed Khan was ‘pulling for the trigger’ on his fake suicide vest when they unleashed a second volley of shots at him after he sat up and opened his jacket on London Bridge.
One officer shot Usman Khan twice at close range but did not kill him and another five officers then discharged 18 more rounds when he sat up, eight minutes later. Only 12 of the rounds hit him and two caused fatal injuries.
His grave is in the village of Kajlani, in Azad Kashmir in a valley some 950m above sea level where villagers and Pakistan intelligence officers monitor it to prevent people accessing what has become a symbol of embarrassment for the country.
One villager told MailOnline: ‘We know Usman Khan did something bad in the UK. But we don’t know too much about what he did.
Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt (left), 25, and Saskia Jones (right), 23, were stabbed to death by Khan at an offender rehabilitation conference held at Fishmongers’ Hall, London Bridge, during the horrific terror attack
Khan was chased onto London Bridge by three bystanders who were armed with a fire extinguisher and a narwhal tusk in an attempt to disarm him before he was held down on the ground and armed police officers arrived
A new image released on Thursday showing armed police aiming their weapons at Khan on the ground as a bystander (with the pink colouring around their neck) runs away
‘Moreover, we do not want people to photograph his grave because we feel that it will be used as a means to attack Pakistan by the West.
‘Some people and journalists have tried and been beaten back. The ISI (Pakistan Intelligence) people came here and asked villagers like me to stop the media from seeing the grave because it would look bad for Pakistan.’
Another local said: ‘His family who live here have said he did terrible things in England. That is all most of us know of Usman Khan. But he is a son of Pakistan and we must still respect him in death.’
Khan had visited Kajlani several times and would stay there in-between attending terrorist training camps.
He was first arrested in 2008 after police surveillance showed him to be a Jihadist sympathiser, but released.
Khan was arrested again in December 2010 after returning from Pakistan.
He was one of nine men held after an anti-terror operation by MI5 called Operation Guava .
In 2012, he and his eight collaborators pleaded guilty to Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism offences.
They planned to bomb the London Stock Exchange, the Houses of Parliament, the US embassy, two rabbis at two synagogues, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral and the home of then London Mayor Boris Johnson.
After being freed in 2018 he was ordered to wear a GPS tag to enable police to monitor his movements.
But police believed Khan ‘may have been behaving in a deceptively compliant manner in order to facilitate his release’, the inquest has heard.
There was also an intelligence report two months before he was freed from HMP Whitemoor in December 2018 suggesting he ‘would return to his old ways’, interpreted as meaning terrorism, the inquest jury has been told.
But crucially the report was not shared with the Probation Service or with Prevent deradicalisation officers dealing with Khan.
It was reported that Khan was inspired by the ideology of Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and that he was a ‘student and close friend’ of al-Muhajiroun leader Anjem Choudary.
Following his attack during a rehabilitation session, he was chased on to London Bridge by members of the public armed with a fire extinguisher and narwhal tusk and then shot dead by police.
His family, who decided to fly his body back to Pakistan, held his funeral on December 6th 2019, attended only by close relatives and an Imam.
The white headstone was inscribed in both Urdu and Arabic and carried the date of his death according to the Gregorian calendar, used by much of the world, as well as the Islamic version.
The inscription begins: ‘Bismillah Irrahman Irrahim (In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)’.
It then adds the Islamic declaration of Muhammad being the Prophet’s messenger and that there is no ‘deity but Allah.’
It goes on: ‘Usman Ahmed Khan son of Taaj Muhammad Khan. Date of death: 29 November 2019, Friday. Islamic date: 29 Rabaul Awal 1414H.’
In a statement, released through police after the atrocity, the Khan family said: ‘We are saddened and shocked by what Usman has done.
‘We totally condemn his actions and we wish to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery to all of the injured.’
Raja Mushtaq Ahmed, the only relative to speak publicly of the terrorist and who lives in Kajlani, said Khan was angry over ‘western injustices’ in the Muslim world.
He told the BBC shortly after his cousin’s death: ‘He used to say this is injustice… conspiracies are being hatched against Islam. Muslims are being oppressed. Why did they do injustice to us?’
Mr Ahmed added: ‘I used to tell him that it should be stopped but we should make it stop by responding peacefully.’
Khan’s grave is located in the village of village of Kajlani (above), in Azad Kashmir in a valley, 950m above sea level – 4,000 miles from where he carried out the atrocity in London where he murdered two young people and wounded three more