Bekendte af Darren Osborne har beskrevet ham som en ‘bloody psycho’ berygtet for værtshusslagsmål. Lørdag aften blev han smidt ud af sin stampub i Cardiff for fuldskab og larm, hvor han havde forbandet muslimer og sværget på, at han ville «do some damage».

En af stamgæsterne på pubben kommenterede:

‘He’s a loud and aggressive person. He’s always shouting the odds if anyone disagrees with him.’

Naboer og bekendte tegner et billede af en aggressiv mand uden impulskontrol, som har let til brug af vold.

Men Osbornes indvandrer-naboer er chokerede:

Neighbour Saleem Naema, 50, a taxi driver, said: “I can’t believe it. I know him. I’ve lived here for five years, he was already living here when I moved in.

«If I ever needed anything he would come. I just can’t believe that he did that. I am a Muslim.»

Khadijeh Sherizi, who lives next door to Osborne, said: «I saw him on the news and I thought ‘oh my God’ that is my neighbour.

«He has been so normal. He was in his kitchen yesterday afternoon singing with his kids. He was the dad of the family. He has kids. He lives next door. He seemed polite and pleasant to me. I just can’t believe it.»

Osborne var blevet skilt fra sin kone for seks måneder siden og har siden boet i et telt i en skov i det sydlige Wales. Søndag var det fars dag i Storbritannien og Osborne var set fuld og bevidstløs på forsædet af den lejede varevogn, 24 timer før han brugte den som våben.

Police were warned the Finsbury Park terror suspect was drunk and unconscious on the front seat of his rented white van 24 hours before he allegedly used it as a weapon to murder and maim Muslims, it was claimed today.

Darren Osborne, 47, was reportedly seen sleeping across the front three seats of the box van in his home town of Cardiff in the early hours of Father’s Day.

Osbornes kriminelle handling forklares som højre-ekstrem. Men det forudsætter vel en hvis politisk interesse i det mindste? Søsteren hævder, at han ikke engang ved, hvem statsministeren er.

‘He’s not political. He wouldn’t even know who the Prime Minister is. I’ve never heard him say anything about Muslims or anything racist’.

Hun har måske ikke hørt ham sige noget om muslimer, men dem, der var på pubben med ham i lørdags gjorde. Osborne er en arbejdsløs mekaniker og var optændt af had efter terrorangrebet på London Bridge, siges det. The Telegraph skriver:

He is alleged to have expressed increasingly antagonistic views towards Muslims in the weeks since the London Bridge atrocity.

Peter Mackuin, 53 told The Sun: ‘Around two weeks ago I saw him and he was a right state. I saw him wandering out of the woods.’

‘He looked like he’d been crying. Something was definitely wrong. His missus had been out looking for him as he had been gone all day after a blazing row’.

Osbornes mor siger, at han var «forstyrret» og havde taget medicin mod psykiske problemer. Hun havde med det samme genkendt ham på TV-klippende og beskrev det som «every mother’s worst nightmare».

“My son is no terrorist — he’s just a man with problems and I don’t know how to cope with all this»,  fortalte hun til The Sun.

To personer sagde, at Darren Osborne standsede dem i London søndag og spurgte om vej  til Finsbury moské. De befandt sig på dette tidspunkt 6,5 kilometer fra moskéen. Så hvis Osborne ikke vidste, hvem statsministeren var, så havde hanuden tvivl hørt om Finsbury moské. Det var ikke et tilfældigt valg. De to som gav ham vejanvisninger fortæller:

“He was really, really stressed. He was moving too much with his hands, was sweating. When I heard this morning I was worrying, I was panicking saying ‘oh my god what have we done’, I’m blaming myself. At the end of the day we only done what anyone else would have done – just showed him directions.”

Daily Mail