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Two London Bridge attackers named as Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane

Scotland Yard has named two of the terrorists involved in the London Bridge attack as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.

The announcement is a sign the investigation has reached a stage where the police can be confident of revealing hitherto secret details.

In a statement, Scotland Yard confirmed Butt was known to police and MI5 - but added there was no intelligence to suggest an attack was being planned. They went on to say that Redouane was not known to those authorities.

Sky News knew the name of at least one attacker but we did not publish it at the request of the security services.

However, we have built up an extensive profile of Khuram Butt, his family life and career.

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In his neighbourhood in east London, Butt was known as Abu Zaitun - or Abu for short.

The 27-year-old came to Britain as a child when his parents sought asylum from Pakistan - and he lived in a ground-floor flat in Barking.

Neighbours tell a mixed picture of Butt.

One woman, who did not want to be named, said he stared angrily whenever he saw women cycling on the estate. She described it as "sinister" and "sexist".

Another neighbour said they enjoyed arguing about Arsenal and whether Arsene Wenger should remain manager.

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Two young boys told me he had given them sweets and £2 each in a nearby park last week. He told them they must be polite to their dads and respect their elders.

But a parent also told us that she confronted him and asked him not to speak to her children any more - fearful they were being radicalised.

An online CV shows that Butt obtained an NVQ in business administration in 2009, and a diploma in teaching English to adults in August 2016.

The CV lists two jobs: one he started in May at Transport for London, and another at a company called Auriga Holdings, which we believe to be a franchise for a local KFC restaurant.

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Rachid Redouane was 30 years old and born in July 1986. He had said he was Moroccan and Libyan.

Scotland Yard says he also used the name Rachid Elkhdar, as well as a different date of birth which made him five years younger.

According to Sky sources, an Irish ID card was found on Redouane's body.

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Police in Ireland are investigating, with detectives trying to establish whether he travelled to Syria.

He is understood to have lived in the Rathmines area of Dublin for 18 months between 2014 and 2016. He was married to a Scottish wife.

An investigation is under way to establish the identity of the third accomplice - and Scotland Yard has asked for people with information about any of these men to come forward.

All 12 people arrested in raids on Sunday following the attack have now been released without charge.