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Queen grants rare royal pardon to murderer who fought off a terrorist knife attacker with a 5-foot narwhal tusk on London Bridge
2020-10-19
[BusinessInsider]
  • A murderer who confronted the London Bridge attacker with a narwhal tusk in 2019 will see his 17-year prison sentence reduced under a royal pardon, reports The Mirror.

  • Under the pardon, he will be able to reduce his prison sentence by 10 months and can apply for parole in June 2021.

  • Steve Gallant, 47, was jailed in 2005 after killing a former firefighter outside of a pub in the Northeastern city of Hull.

  • Gallant was on his day release at a conference organized to help rehabilitate prisoners when the attacker, convicted terrorist Usman Khan,
    ...the Pakistani-Brit former jailbird who ran off from the conference to knife all the passersby he could reach before being stopped and killed. As a precocious 15 year old high school drop-out he’d gotten on terrorist watchlists for preaching hate with Anjem Chaudry’s al-Muhajiroun on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent. He’d been released the previous year after serving time for plotting to bomb the London stock exchange for Al Qaeda in Arabia, but ISIS claimed he died while killing for them...
    fatally stabbed two people.

  • Gallant has received the royal prerogative of mercy by the Queen, for his "exceptionally brave actions...which helped save people's lives despite the tremendous risk to his own."

  • This is the first royal pardon for a convicted murderer in 25 years.
Related:
Narwhal: 2019-12-02 BoJo reveals 74 other criminals released on similar charges to London Bridge attacker, incl. 6 of Khan’s buddies, terror checks intensified
Narwhal: 2019-11-30 Day 2: London Bridge suspect had prior ‘Islamist terrorism’ conviction
Narwhal: 2007-02-05 Polar Bears, Killer Whales Invade Iceland (Maybe?)
Related:
Usman Khan: 2020-06-06 'We will take over': Australian leader of extremist Islamic group says US riots are 'opportunity' for Muslims to seize global leadership, impose Sharia law
Usman Khan: 2020-02-09 Radicalised chem. teacher jailed for 6 years in 2015 for planning to join ISIS is back on the streets a month early despite being handed an extended sentence; gov’t wants law to stop early release
Usman Khan: 2020-02-02 London stabbing: Police shoot man after ‘terrorist-related' incident in Streatham, Update: another known wolf recently released early from prison
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  ^ except it wouldn't be a garter that Her Majesty affixes to the worthy recipient. Could be... awkward
Posted by: Snakes Wittlesbach3955   2020-10-19 20:49  

#7  Weapon of opportunity.

Improvise, adapt and overcome.

If I were the Royal Advisor, I'd suggest to Queenie that she create an Order of the Narwhal to be awarded for acts of exceptionally stylish bravery.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-10-19 19:54  

#6  There's something you don't see every day.
Posted by: gorb   2020-10-19 19:53  

#5   Did we ever find out what was up with the Narwhale tusk?

The antique tusk was hanging on the wall as decoration near where our miscreant grabbed a knife and started running amok, rj. Weapon of opportunity.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-10-19 18:42  

#4  Seamstress -- he was convicted of killing a guy in a pub fight.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-10-19 18:26  

#3  Did we ever find out what was up with the Narwhale tusk?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-10-19 18:13  

#2  Lt me get this straight, he was convicted for killing a (mostly peaceful) terrorist that was piercing people with a (mostly peaceful) knife?
Even for the Brits this sounds like insanity.
Posted by: Cimmerian Seamstress3462   2020-10-19 17:48  

#1  She has some good handlers.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-10-19 00:45  

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