Theresa May visited north London this afternoon and said: "The awful terrorist attack which took place last night was an evil borne out of hatred and it has devastated a community".
The worshippers had gathered outside the mosque after breaking the Ramadan fast and observing evening prayers. A vehicle struck pedestrians near a mosque in north London early Monday morning.
Police in London are calling for calm after a driver plowed into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside a north London mosque.
Police have said hate crimes rose after the London Bridge attack and more officers would be deployed to provide reassurance to mosques. The city brimmed with questions as to who was behind the attack, who had been apprehended and what their motives were.
The terrorist has been charged with attempted murder.
In a telephone interview with ITV News, his mother described him as a "complex" person but said "that's all I can say". Witnesses claimed Osborne shouted: "I want to kill all Muslims", before bystanders pinned him to the ground. One man died at the scene, although he was receiving first aid at the time and it wasn't clear if he died as a result of the attack or from something else.
Now that there has been an attack on Muslims, it proves once and for all that terrorism is not limited to one group, organisation or religion.
In a statement on behalf of the family, Osborne's nephew Ellis Osborne, 26, said: "We are massively shocked; it's unbelievable, it still hasn't really sunk in".
Ellis Osborne said his uncle Darren Osborne was "not a racist" and had never expressed any racist views.
Mother tries to smother 1-year-old at Levine Children's Hospital
Charlotte TV station WSOC cited police sources who said Dixon tried to smother the child four times within 15 minutes. Police say hospital workers saw Dixon try to suffocate the boy when they watched surveillance video of the room.
She told The Sun: "My son is no terrorist - he's just a man with problems and I don't know how to cope with all this".
"It's not just robbing a bank, it's an atrocity". It seems the list is never-ending at the moment and I can not recall a time in my life when London had to deal with so many casualties in one month. "The relationships between the police and community here are very important to us, and are mostly very good indeed".
The Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns, said he had spoken to the Chief Constable of South Wales Police, Peter Vaughan.
Despite allegations that Osborne deliberately targeted a community on the basis of its religion, several news outlets began humanizing him as a "jobless lone wolf", "complex", "troubled" and "father of four".
Osborne's next-door-neighbor, Khadijh Sherazi, a Muslim convert, revealed he racially abused her 12-year-old son, Nadeem, on the weekend.
Police say the attacker acted alone, and a man has been arrested.
The Metropolitan Police Service, already stretched by its investigations of the earlier attacks and a high-rise apartment fire that is believed to have killed 79 people, immediately announced it was putting extra patrols on the streets to protect the public.
A previous version of this story has been corrected to show that the identification of the suspect was reported by British media, not police.
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