Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid, 49, revealed Sunday’s attack took place “on her doorstep” and she ran down to the scene after spotting a police helicopter hovering close to her house. The television broadcaster admitted bystanders were left “stunned” by the unsuspecting violence.
During her appearance on the ITV show today, the small-screen star admitted going down to Streatham High Road just moments after Sudesh Amman’s knife attack.
The 20-year-old had previously been serving a three-year and four month sentence for terror offences.
Susanna explained: “So this happened, I have to say, right on my doorstep…
“I saw the police helicopter up in the air and then we realised something was happening went onto social media and of course then discovered this was happening just a couple of minutes away from where I live.”
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Speaking to her co-host Piers Morgan, Susanna then showed pictures she took at the scene.
She went on: “This is the Odeon cinema, that’s where we go to watch films and it happened literally just diagonally opposite the Odeon cinema.
“This is the Lidl supermarket. People were gathered absolutely shocked to see… four heavily armed police officers in the wake of what happened.
“People were shocked, stunned, frightened…there were local residents who couldn’t get back into their homes… [they] didn’t know if the threat was still going on.”
The attacker, named Sudesh Amman, who hailed from Harrow, North London, was imprisoned in 2018 after he was found to be spreading extremist material.
He was under police surveillance at the time of the knife attack.
Amman was wearing a fake bomb vest before being shot dead by police.
Scotland Yard earlier confirmed at least three people were injured in the attack and have been taken to hospital.
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At the time, the Metropolitan Police tweeted: “Three people are known to have been injured in the Streatham attack earlier.
“One person is at a hospital in a life-threatening condition. We are in the process of informing their family. A second victim was treated for minor injuries at the scene before being taken to hospital.”
They finished: “A third victim has been taken to hospital – their condition is not life-threatening.”
Meanwhile, Susanna’s co-host Piers, also expressed his frustrations following the incident on Good Morning Britain.
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He fumed: “Why are we releasing them? Like I keep saying, we keep over 70 prisoners in for life without any tariff. Like the monsters who killed Lee Rigby for example.
He continued: “They’ll never come out of prison because they committed an act not dissimilar to this. What is the difference?
“The jihadi last night, had he survived this attack, you can absolutely bet your life he would have been let out at some stage again. It is utterly ridiculous.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am.
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