Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman is latest terrorist to wear fake bomb vest so he can die from ‘suicide by cop’ and become a ‘martyr’

• Sudesh Amman wore a replica explosive belt around his chest during his attack
• The use of ‘hoax devices’ is a way of ensuring police shoot to kill during atrocities
• As Islam forbids suicide, terrorists can use ‘suicide by cop’ to achieve martyrdom
• Tactic used repeatedly since it was utilised by the 2017 London Bridge attackers

The convicted terrorist who launched a knife rampage in south London yesterday is the latest Islamist to wear a fake suicide vest in the bid to become a ‘martyr’.

Sudesh Amman wore a replica explosive belt around his chest during Sunday’s terror attack in what has become an increasingly common tactic used by terrorists.

It is believed the use of ‘hoax devices’ – usually comprised of tapped-up water bottles – is a way of ensuring that armed police shoot to kill during the attacks.

Islam clearly forbids suicide, meaning terrorists looking to achieve supposed martyrdom are now finding ‘suicide by cop’ as an appropriate option.

The tactic has been repeated several times since it was infamously utilised by the London Bridge terror attackers in 2017.

Armed police shoot dead extremist Sudesh Amman, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, after he grabbed a knife from a shop and stabbed a man and a woman in Streatham on Sunday

London Bridge terrorist Khuram Butt is pictured lying fatally injured on the ground wearing a fake suicide vest 

Rachid Redouane created fake belts (pictured) using silver tape and plastic bottles inside his east London flat ahead of the 2017 London Bridge terror attack

Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba (shown left to right) killed eight people before they themselves were shot dead

Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba all wore fake suicide vests as they murdered eight people.

Redouane created the fake belts using silver tape and plastic bottles inside his east London flat.

As well as ensuring they would be shot dead by armed officers, it also helped to instill fear in members of the public and police, while deterring would-be vigilantes.

During an inquest into the deaths of the attackers, a City of London Police officer said he spotted the devices and believed them to be real.

Convicted terrorist Usman Khan (shown lying on the ground) also used a fake suicide vest when he carried out a similar knife attack near London Bridge in December 2019

He said: ‘I thought that I was going to get stabbed and that if it was a viable IED, it was going to explode. I kept firing until that male hit the floor and was neutralised.’ 

Convicted terrorist Usman Khan also used a fake suicide vest when he carried out a similar knife attack near London Bridge in December 2019.

He stabbed Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, to death inside Fishmonger’s Hall before he was shot dead on the bridge by officers.

Earlier this year, a convicted jihadi and another inmate attacked two prison officers after equipped themselves with fake suicide belts and used makeshift knives.

Brusthom Ziamani, 24, attacked the two officers inside HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire. 

Ziamani, a follower of radical preacher Anjem Choudary, 52, was found guilty of planning a terror attack in 2015 over a plot to behead a British soldier. 

Brusthom Ziamani, 24, attacked the two officers inside HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire while wearing a fake suicide vest

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