Finsbury Park attack trial as it happened: Witnesses describe Darren Osborne's alleged van ramming to court
Updates from Woolwich Crown Court as Osborne denies murder and attempted murder
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Survivors of the terror attack in Finsbury Park have evidence on the third day of Darren Osborne’s trial.
Witnesses told the jury how a crowd of Muslim worshippers were helping a man who collapsed when a van ploughed into them at speed, scattering victims in its wake.
Mr Osborne attempted to flee from the vehicle but found himself trapped in a dead end, the court heard, and was restrained by survivors while allegedly telling them: "I've done my job, you can kill me now."
Woolwich Crown Court previously heard that the 48-year-old became “brainwashed” after watching a drama on grooming gangs and read posts by Tommy Robinson and the leaders of far-right extremist group Britain First.
He is accused of running a hired van into crowds of Muslim worshippers shortly after 12.15am on 19 June last year, killing 51-year-old Makram Ali and injuring nine other victims.
Mr Osborne denies charges of murder and attempted murder.
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On Tuesday, the court heard from a local van hire company that rented Mr Osborne the vehicle used in the attack.
Employees said there appeared to be nothing unusual about the transaction and that the defendant, arriving to pick up the van alone, was “polite and well-mannered”.
The court also from witnesses who saw Mr Osborne drinking in The Hollybush pub in Cardiff the night before the attack.
They told the jury he claimed to be writing a letter to the Government and had told them: “I’m going to kill Muslims, your family are going to be Muslims, they’re all terrorists and I’m going to take it into my own hands.”
Mr Osborne allegedly told drinkers about a march due to take place the following day in London for al-Quds day, which prosecutors said he had researched online.
A taxi driver told the court he gave Mr Osborne, who had driven from Cardiff, directions to the location where the concluding rally was being held on 18 June but that the surrounding roads were closed off.
Other members of the public alleged that the defendant asked them directions to mosques in different parts of London later in the day, finally specifically asking how to get to “the big mosque” in Finsbury Park.
Jurors were shown CCTV footage of the scene near the Muslim Welfare House at around midnight, where Mr Ali collapsed and Muslim worshippers leaving prayers rushed to help him.
Mr Osborne stared straight ahead as the court was played footage of the moment the van swerved from the main road into the crowd at speed, leaving casualties scattered on the ground.
A handwritten note – which complained about terrorists, grooming gangs and targeted public figures including Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan - was found in the cab of the van after the attack.
The trial continues.
The court is now hearing evidence from police and doctors who responded to the incident.
Two police officers were on routine patrol near Finsbury Park station when they were flagged down by survivors of the attack and the imam, moving to detain Mr Osborne and turning off the van's engine.
An air ambulance doctor who was sent to the scene said it was classed as a 'multi-casualty incident' and she arrived to find Mr Ali in cardiac arrest and undergoing CPR from a civilian.
She said a medical team found Mr Ali was not breathing for himself and had no pulse, saying that they intubated him to breathe but were unable to restart his heart. Mr Ali was pronounced dead at 1.04am.
PC David Jones said he was driving the van down Seven Sisters Road on routine patrol with a colleague when they were flagged down and he got out of the car.
He says he found Mr Osborne being held down by a group saying 'It's him, it's him.'
He handcuffed Mr Osborne and took him into a van, he added: "People were lashing out trying to hit him."
PC Jones turned on his body-worn video camera during the incident, when he says he was still unaware of what had taken place when he put him in the van.
He said he did not feel comfortable shutting the police van door on him as he did not know what he might do, so kept it open and was "stuck" between Mr Osborne and the crowd.
PC Jones describes the scene as "absolute pandemonium" and said more than 100 people already gathered at the scene were giving conflicting accounts of what happened.
He descibes Mr Osborne as "sweating profusely" and with a cut above his eye, initiailly thinking there had been an accident.
"I felt that I had to move Mr Osborne away from there as quick as possible," he says.
Mr Osborne was put in the van by PC Jones and a female PC who drove it a short distance away and stopped, where they conducted a roadside breath test because some members of the crowd had been shouting "drink driver, drink driver".
"The result was zero, indicating no alcohol in his breath at all."
Officers were told the offence being considered was attempted murder, arrested and cautioned Mr Osborne and took him to Islington Police Station.
After being searched, Mr Osborne began to speak "voluntarily, with no questions asked". The exchange was captured on body-worn video, which is about to be played to the court
The first clip shows the police van door open outside Islington Police Station:
Mr Osborne starts by talking about how he left his driving licence at a petrol station where he was unable to pay - as detailed in yesterday's hearing - before launching into an expletive-filled rant.
He ranted about Muslims "raping white, non-Muslim girls up and down the country" and made a series of comments alleging Muslims "hunt in packs", calling them "f***ing animals" and "inbred".
The defendant is also heard attacking Jeremy Corbyn, Lilly Allen and Sadiq Khan, sarcastically repeating the phrase "don't look back in anger".