A man killed in the London Bridge terror attack has been named as University of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt.
Mr Merritt was a course coordinator at Learning Together, which held the prison rehabilitation conference attended by Usman Khan before his deadly rampage on Friday afternoon.
Khan killed a man and a woman in the attack and injured three other people, who are being treated in hospital, before he was shot dead by police.
The 28-year-old was a convicted terrorist who was wearing an electronic tag after being released half-way through a 16-year prison sentence for plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange.
Mr Merritt's father David Merritt posted on Twitter: "My son, Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.
"R.I.P. Jack: you were a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog."
Khan, armed with two knives and wearing a fake suicide vest, was tackled by members of the public before he was shot dead by police on London Bridge next to the hall.
Sky News understands he was a student and personal friend of the Islamist extremist Anjem Choudary.
Footage posted online showed Khan being taken to the ground as one man sprays him with a fire extinguisher and another, reportedly a Polish chef, lunges towards him with a narwhal tusk believed to have been taken from the wall inside the hall.
It is understood that Khan started "lashing out" in a downstairs room of the hall but was grabbed by people at the conference and bundled out of the front door as he tried to go upstairs.
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