Streatham terrorist Sudesh Amman’s mother is ‘disgusted’ by her son’s knife rampage but relieved he failed to kill as she disowns his extremist Islamist beliefs
- Haleema Khan, 41, is ‘very upset’ with her 20-year-old son’s knife rampage
- She rejects his fanatical Islamic extremist beliefs, says source close to family
- Amman lived with Mrs Khan and his five younger brothers in Harrow, London
- But 20-year-old was jailed for terror offences at Old Bailey in December 2018
The mother of convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman is ‘disgusted’ with his knife rampage after he stabbed two people in an attack in London, MailOnline can reveal.
Haleema Khan, 41, is ‘very upset’ with her 20-year-old son’s knife rampage and rejects his fanatical Islamic extremist beliefs, a source close to the family said.
Amman lived with Mrs Khan and his five younger brothers in Harrow, North West London, before he was jailed for terror offences at the Old Bailey in December 2018.
Sudesh Amman, 20, from Harrow in North West London, had previously fantasised about carrying out a terror attack with a blade or with acid while riding a moped
Armed police shoot dead extremist Amman, after he grabbed a knife from a shop and stabbed a man and a woman in a brutal high-street rampage in Streatham, South London, yesterday
Mrs Khan, who has since moved to the Bedfordshire market town of Dunstable, is now trying to get her son’s body from police ‘as soon as possible’ to bury him.
The family source told MailOnline today: ‘Haleema is disgusted by what he has done and his beliefs, but she is a mother and has lost a son so she is very upset and sad.
‘But they are relieved that he wasn’t able to kill anyone. It has hit them very hard, but now they are trying to get his body from the police as soon as possible and bury him.
‘This is done as quickly as one can for Muslims as is custom and prayers for him will begin shortly.’
A former neighbour of Amman, Savita Khimani, 51, said: ‘After he was convicted last the mother still believed her son was wrongly accused and hadn’t done anything.
‘The last time I spoke to her was about three months ago. They went very quiet. Last time we asked the police what happened and we were scared because armed police were here all the time.
‘We’ve never had any issues with them and we just had casual conversation to be honest. The brothers never addressed anything about him being sent to prison.’
Her son, Jignesh Khimani, 20, went to school with Amman. He said: ‘He was a normal boy at Park High School (in Stanmore). He kept himself to himself.
‘He was a quiet lad. There were no red flags at all. He did have friends. The family all acted normal. I would see the brothers out and about but we never saw his dad. Sudesh had no social media whatsoever.’
Amman is thought to have attended Park High School, an academy in Stanmore with 1,650 pupils which was labelled ‘outstanding’ in its most recent Ofsted inspection.
In December 2018, Amman smiled and waved to his mother and brother in the public gallery at the Old Bailey when he was jailed for 13 terror offences.
Amman lived with his mother Haleema Khan and his five younger brothers at a property (centre) in Harrow, North West London
Mrs Khan has since moved to a home (right) in the Bedfordshire market town of Dunstable
Amman is said to have attended Park High School, an academy in Stanmore, North London, with 1,650 pupils which was labelled ‘outstanding’ in its most recent Ofsted inspection
Wearing a black prayer cap and long black tunic, Amman smirked when he was told that he was facing a sentence of just three years and four months.
The maths and science student at North West London College with a fascination for knives refused to stand for the judge and could not stop laughing.
The fanatic kept a notebook in which he wrote that his ‘goals in life’ were: ‘Die as a shuhada’, which means martyr, and ‘go to jannah’, which translates as paradise.
Amman told his girlfriend to kill her parents, bought a combat knife and airgun in readiness for a terror attack and tried to radicalise his younger brothers.
He sent Isis recruitment material and shared an Al Qaeda magazine to a family WhatsApp group that included his three younger brothers aged between 11 and 15.
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