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		</div><p>An MI5 review found the investigation into London Bridge terrorist Khuram Butt was “well and effectively run”, an inquest has heard.</p>
<p>A senior officer from the security service, known only as Witness L, gave evidence to the Old Bailey on Wednesday amid tight security.</p>
<p>He was shielded from public view in the witness box, surrounded by curtains fastened tightly with bulldog clips.</p>
<p>Witness L told the hearing a post attack review, carried out by a manager in MI5 with a panel of experts, found “the investigation into Khuram Butt was well and effectively run”.</p>
<p>It also said decisions to temporarily suspend investigations into the 27-year-old due to resourcing pressures in February 2016 and March 2017 were “logical and proportionate in the circumstances”.</p>
<p>Police were not consulted about the suspensions “in any systematic way” but may have been spoken to informally, he told the court.</p>
<p>Witness L is set to face questions about how much MI5 knew about the three London Bridge attackers before the atrocity and whether it could have been stopped.</p>
<p>Butt, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, killed eight people and injured 48 more in a van and knife attack on June 3, 2017.</p>
<p>They mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing innocent bystanders at random in nearby Borough Market.</p>
<p>Those who died were Xavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39.</p>
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