{UAH} The 'vampire' terrorist: How a Kent schoolboy and 'friendly approachable teacher' turned into the 'neighbour who was only seen at night' after he converted to Islam
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The 'vampire' terrorist: How a Kent schoolboy and 'friendly approachable teacher' turned into the 'neighbour who was only seen at night' after he converted to Islam in jail and moved to Jihadi hotspot Saudi Arabia to teach English
- Khalid Masood was born Adrian Elms in Kent and has appalling history of violent crime including stabbings
- He unleashed murderous rampage more than a decade after turning his back on his family and friends
- Terrorist had two spells in jail where he is believed to have converted to Islam and marries Muslim woman
- CV reveals Masood got English teaching job in Saudi Arabia and called himself 'friendly and approachable'
- Father-of-three's marriage failed and he spent years living in a series of terrorist hotbeds across Britain
- Neighbours in Birmingham describe how Masood was 'strange' and stalked streets all in black like a 'vampire'
- Do you know Khalid Masood/Adrian Elms/Adrian Ajao? Email news@mailonline.co.uk or call 02036151866
The Westminster ISIS-inspired fanatic has been unmasked as violent extremist Khalid Masood who was nicknamed 'the vampire' because he stalked the streets at night wearing all black.
Masood, 52, was born Adrian Elms in Kent and has an appalling history of violent crime including stabbing someone in the face before converting to Islam in jail and moving to Saudi Arabia.
He unleashed his murderous rampage after turning his back on his family in the Home Counties and living under five different names including Adrian Ajao and Khalid Choudry among others.
After amassing a lengthy list of criminal convictions, the father of three changed his name to Masood and spent years living in a series of terrorist hotbeds across Britain.
At one stage he was investigated by MI5, but was considered a 'peripheral' figure and 'not part of the current intelligence picture'. And he did not feature on a secret blacklist of up to 3,000 people thought to be capable of mounting an attack.
Scotland Yard today launched an urgent appeal to ask the public for help to find any accomplices as they try to piece together his path to terrorism.
But his neighbours in Birmingham believe it is unlikely he was working alone and described him as a 'strange character' and called him 'the vampire' because he would only come out at night wearing all black.
Revealed: This is extremist Khalid Masood, 52, who was known to MI5 for links to extremism but was born Adrian Elms in Kent on Christmas Day 1964 with a long list of convictions for violent crime
Crime scene: Masood (collapsed to ground) was shot dead after attacking PC Palmer (right of picture), following a rampage on Westminster Bridge, where he drove into crowds in a 4x4 which mounted the pavement
Mother-of-two Aysha Frade (left), Metropolitan policeman Keith Palmer (centre) and US tourist Kurt Cochran (right) have been named as victims of the attack
Terror group ISIS yesterday claimed they inspired the attack which killed three and injured 29 others in Westminster yesterday
He was born in Dartford, Kent, on Christmas Day in 1964, to 17-year-old single mother, Janet Elms, who is estranged from her son.
She sells hand-made bags and cushions from her rural west Wales farm which was raided last night. His brothers have denied knowing him.
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MailOnline revealed last night that Masood stabbed a man in the face in 2003 following a street row outside and a nursing home and was sent to prison where he turned to Islam and met
Masood, then 39, who was running a television aerial installation business at the time, also faced two charges of possessing an offensive weapon, namely a knife and a baton.
His victim required plastic surgery on his nose and Masood, then under his birth name Elms, is believed to have been sent to prison where he may have converted to Islam.
He had already spent time in Lewes jail, East Sussex, Wayland jail in Norfolk, and Ford open prison in West Sussex.
After his release from 2004 he married Muslim Farzana Malik after converting to Islam.
But even after finding religion MailOnline can reveal that his brushed with the law continued.
In 2006 he jumped out of the third floor of his home in Crawley to avoid arrest as police chased him with former neighbours describing him as violent, abusive and generally 'bad news'.
But despite his string of convictions for violent crimes, starting in 1983, he still appears to have secured work as an English teacher in Saudi Arabia and later Britain claiming he had a degree in economics.
A CV distributed by Masood this year claims he held an economics degree and worked for years in Saudi Arabia teaching English.
On the document, he described himself as 'British', 'friendly and approachable' and a 'good listener'.
He stated on the document he had a TESOL qualification, which allows a person to teach English to speakers of foreign languages.
The killer said that in 2005, he was teaching English in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, to workers at the General Authority of Civil Aviation. If the claims that he lived in Saudi Arabia are true, it is possible he was radicalised there.
Masood's CV goes on to state he returned to the UK in 2009 and joined a TEFL college in Luton as a 'senior English teacher', supervising seven other staff – despite serving two jail sentences, including one for grievous bodily harm.
Police confirmed he had a substantial criminal record for assaults, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.
His first conviction was for criminal damage in November 1983, when he was just 19. His last was in December 2003 for possession of a knife.
He was never convicted of any offence linked to terrorism or violent extremism.
Up until Christmas, Masood lived in the Winson Green area of Birmingham where he shared a flat with a woman and their young child. Neighbours described him as a 'very religious and well-spoken man' who was always at the mosque on Fridays.
Iwona Romek, 45, said: 'I saw him taking his children to school. He had a long beard like in the photo and he used to wear this long, Islamic dress.
'I saw him with a girl, maybe five or six, and a woman who was also covered. I saw her a few times. She appeared to be Asian – she wasn't black. She didn't wear a burqa, she wore a blue headscarf that came all the way down. He seemed to be a very nice person.
'When I was going out or arriving by car he was always friendly and smiling, and then he moved. I saw him taking all his things away about three months ago.'
Last night police were working around the clock to untangle the extraordinary background of the man behind the worst domestic terror attack since July 7, 2005.
Adrian Elms was born on Christmas Day 1964, in the Dartford area of Kent, to a white British mother and a black father, who were not married. Twenty years later they moved to Tunbridge Wells where they set up home with his stepfather and two half-brothers.
The Hyundai, said the have been rented in Birmingham, crashed in at least 40 pedestrians before smashing into Parliament
Armed police stormed a flat on Hagley Road, Birmingham after the attack - he lived in various addresses across the UK after the collapse of their marriage
Khalid Masood reportedly in the Preston Park Hotel, in Brighton, the night before carrying out a terror attack in Westminster
His mother now lives in rural west Wales, on a farm in the village of Trelech, Carmarthenshire
His mother Janet now lives with her husband in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, where she runs an online business selling hand-made bags and cushions (pictured)
His mother now lives with her husband in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, where she runs an online business selling hand-made bags and cushions.
A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: 'We heard rumours early yesterday. Then police streamed up the drive to the house. I've heard what the connection is and I'm stunned.'
It is understood Masood's family are being comforted by friends in their detached house, a small holding on a large farm in the village of Trellech, West Wales.
By now using the surname Ajao, Masood met a woman and they had a child in 1992 before settling in the village of Northiam, near Hastings, East Sussex. What happens over the next decade is unclear, but in 2003, he was accused of stabbing a man in the face.
He was charged under his birth name with grievous bodily harm and wounding with intent after a 22-year-old man was found slumped in a driveway of a care home in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Masood, who was running a television aerial installation business at the time, also faced charges of possessing offensive weapons, namely a knife and a baton. It is not known if he was convicted.
The next year, Masood cropped up in Medway, Kent, where he married a local Muslim woman. Six years later, he was living in Luton, known for its links to extremism. But neighbours said they noticed 'nothing untoward' as he looked after two young children and spent hours tending his garden.
Teacher Katie Garricques, 48, said: 'I'm actually shocked that I lived across the road from someone so awful. I'm proud to be from Luton and for it to be so diverse.'
But another neighbour said: 'He was always shy. Sometimes I would see him walking around at night.
'I didn't see him during the day. He was like a shadow. It was hard to tell he was living there.'
Masood then moved to Birmingham where neighbours knew him as an avid Manchester United fan. One said: 'I used to go round there (to Masood's house) to play football with his son, who was about seven. He had an older daughter. The dad was a big man but friendly. He would join in sometimes and show me some tricks.'
Last year, he was registered as living in a terraced house in West Ham, East London, but neighbours said they do not remember seeing him. By the time of the attack, Masood had abandoned his family and was living in a dingy bedsit above a shop in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham with several other men.
Aged in their 20s, they are believed to be among those arrested during a series of raids in London, Sussex, Birmingham and Wales yesterday.
One resident said: 'There were definitely two men and one woman and they were fairly young. There are horrible conditions up there and there have been problems with that row of flats before.'
Earlier this month, a detailed 1,000-page study revealed Birmingham as one of the terror capitals of the world. Between 1998 and 2015, 49 of the 269 people convicted of Islamist terrorism offences or killed as suicide bombers were from the West Midlands.
Scotland Yard said: 'Masood was also known by a number of aliases. He was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack.'
Shashank Joshi, senior research fellow at security think-tank the Royal United Services Institute, said: 'We have always known that it is exceptionally hard to understand who will become a terrorist.
'Masood is unusual in that only a minority become radicalised over the age of 30.
'His criminal record is unsurprising, as some studies shows that a significant proportion of jihadists have had prior convictions.'
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