London Bridge attacker Khuram Butt buried in secret 'after 130 imams refuse to perform funeral'
A relative drove the body to a graveyard near the family's home in east London
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Your support makes all the difference.The man believed to be the ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack has been buried in secret after hundreds of imams reportedly refused to perform his funeral.
A relative drove Khuram Butt's body to a graveyard near the family home in east London.
The 27-year-old's mother was not present at the burial and no ceremony was held.
A source told the Daily Mirror: “The family are distraught with what he did but he is still their son and brother.
“His mother is not in a good way health-wise after what has happened so it was decided she should not attend.”
His funeral was held in secret after 130 imams refused to perform funeral prayers, the Daily Express reports.
Butt and his two accomplices, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba, ploughed a white van into pedestrians in London Bridge before leaving the vehicle to carrying out a stabbing spree in the nearby Borough Market.
The trio killed eight people and injured 48 before dying in a hail of police bullets.
It later emerged Butt had attempted to hire a 7.5 tonne lorry hours before the attack, but used a smaller van instead after he failed to provide payment details.
The father-of-two, who formerly worked on the Tube and at KFC, was known to police and MI5 after he publicly associated himself with Anjem Choudary, who was subsequently jailed for inviting support for Isis, and other extremists in his Islamist network.
He had also appeared in a 2016 Channel 4 documentary about British jihadis, in which eh was seen among a group of extremists praying with a black Islamist flag in Regent's Park, central London.
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