London: The Pakistan-born UK citizen and mastermind of London Bridge attack, Khuram Shehzad Butt, had set up a job interview with the security company that provides stewards to Wimbledon and other sporting events, British media report said on Sunday.
The report has raised security concerns and investigation has been launched to probe whether he had considered targeting the prestigious tennis tournament.
"One possibility is Butt had considered targeting the tennis tournament but decided to speed up the plot, following the Manchester Arena bombing, and switched the attack to London Bridge," the paper said.
Butt had previously worked for six months on the London Underground until quitting in October.
Although he was under low-level investigation by MI5 and counterterrorism police, Butt was able to get a job working at Westminster station because employers are not made aware of security services' concerns when performing criminal records checks, the paper said.
Butt and his aides Moroccan-origin Rachid Redouane and Moroccon-Italian Yousef Zaghba rammed a high-speed van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revellers at the nearby Borough Market, killing eight people before being shot dead by armed police officers last week.
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