Khalid Masood: Police unlock Westminster attacker's final text

WhatsApp message reveals fatal assault was revenge for the west's action in the Middle East

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Scotland Yard has retrieved the final WhatsApp message sent by Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood minutes before he began his deadly attack in which five people, including a police officer, were killed.

An exclusive by The Independent reveals detectives have managed to circumvent the app's end-to-end encryption technology, which "locks" each end of a message so it can only be accessed with a code.

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