Who is Finsbury Park mosque attacker Darren Osborne? – The Sun | The Sun
DARREN OSBORNE killed one person and injured nine more when he drove a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in North London.
After the Finsbury Park mosque attack, which happened in the summer of 2017, Osborne was found guilty of murder and attempted murder.
Who is Darren Osborne and what's his background?
Darren Osborne is a father-of-four from Cardiff, South Wales.
His children were aged between five and 16 at the time of the Finsbury Park attack.
Darren, who was unemployed at the time he carried out his crime, lived with his partner and their kids before he went to prison.
What happened at the Finsbury Park mosque?
One June 19, 2017, Muslim worshippers were leaving a mosque in Finsbury Park, London, after late-night Ramadan prayers.
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A motorist in a hired van drove into the crowd, killing grandfather Makram Ali and injuring nine others.
Police rushed to the scene of the crime and arrested a man, later revealed to be Darren Osborne, shortly after midnight.
He was arrested after he was pinned down by bystanders.
In 2023, on the sixth anniversary of the attacks, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised the local community's reaction to the attack and said it showed how "Londoners will always stand together".
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He said: "My thoughts are with the family and friends of Makram Ali who so tragically lost his life and all those who were injured in the Finsbury Park terror attack six years ago.
"The way the local community responded to the attack showed how Londoners will always stand together in the face of such hate and division and those who wish to harm our way of life will never succeed.
"London's rich diversity is our greatest strength, and we will never be cowed by terrorism."
How long is Darren Osborne's sentence?
On February 1, 2018, Osborne was found guilty of murder and attempted murder by a jury following a trial at Woolwich Crown Court in South London.
The jury, who took less than an hour to convict Osborne, heard how the killer had boasted he wanted to "cause as much damage as possible".
Darren pleaded not guilty, claiming he had an accomplice but had "no idea" the supposed man was set to carry out the attack.
Osborne claimed during the trial a "guy called Dave” was really behind the incident.
The second man did not appear on any of the CCTV footage and Osborne told the court: "He's like Dynamo, an illusionist. He can make himself vanish, perhaps. I don't know."
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees said: "The real truth is that none of this happened. You were the only person in the van and all of this is just a desperate attempt to place Dave in the driver's seat."
Osborne also admitted to plotting to kill Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, during the trial.
His partner Sarah Andrews told the jury how he had become "obsessed with Muslims" after watching the BBC drama Three Girls.
Cops also believe loner Osborne's mind was also warped by researching neo-Nazi material on the internet.
Osborne was jailed for life with a minimum term of 43 years and is serving his sentence at at HMP Frankland in County Durham.
He was previously being held at HMP Wakefield.
Darren has been targeted a number of times since beginning his sentence.
In 2019 he had boiling water thrown in his face in a suspected revenge attack and the following year he suffered a forehead wound and splinter in his right eye after an attack with a sharpened paintbrush handle.
In February 2023 he was ambushed by an inmate with a "shank" knife.
The attack was said to have badly scarred the dad of four.
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