The wife of one of the London Bridge killers broke down in tears today as she told an inquest how she left their baby daughter with him on the day of his attack - while she went to a family barbecue.
Charisse O'Leary said Rachid Redouane, 30, told her he had been 'out with friends' but he was actually renting a Renault van from a B&Q in Romford to use in the attack, taking his daughter with him.
Later that day, on June 3, 2017, he went on to murder eight people on a rampage through London Bridge and Borough Market, along with Khuram Butt, 27, and Youssef Zaghb, 22.
Ms O'Leary told the inquest how she had met Redouane in a nightclub in Manchester in June 2010 and refused 'from day one' to convert to Islam.
Charisse O'Leary (left) said Rachid Redouane (right), 30, told her he had been 'out with friends' but he was actually renting a Renault van from a B&Q in Romford to use in the attack, taking his daughter with him.
The battered Renault van used by terrorists during the attack on London Bridge in 2017. After crashing, the vehicle was left with its bumper hanging off. Redouane rented the vehicle while with his daughter
They split up in January 2017, six months before the attack, after he struck her in an argument over baby milk, but he had never previously been violent, she added.
Ms O'Leary told the inquests into the deaths that the only sign of radicalisation she had seen in her husband was when he refused to let their daughter watch music videos 'in case they turned her gay.'
But she broke down in tears as she described how he showed no reaction when she spoke about the death of children in the Manchester Arena attack, two weeks before Redouane and two others killed eight people at London Bridge.
She told the inquest she was 'shocked that he was capable of doing something like that'.
In the week before the attack, Redouane saw his 20-month old daughter every day, apart from the day before the attack, taking her out for a particularly long day on June 1.
On Saturday June 3, the day of the attack, Ms O'Leary spent the afternoon at a family barbecue, leaving their daughter at her flat in Barking, East London with Redouane.
'I got a changing bag ready. I had already given her lunch but I had cooked her tea,' she said.
In the late afternoon he texted asking what time she was coming back and she messaged back: 'Between 7pm and 8pm. Why, are you bored with her already?'
Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22 killed eight in a knife rampage near London Bridge on June 3, 2017 (pictured is the aftermath of the attack)
Attackers Khuram Butt (left) and Youssef Zaghba (right) were shot dead by police alongside Rachid Redouane
Redouane told her he was 'out with friends' but he was actually with Khuram Butt and Youssef Zaghba as they rented a Renault van for their attack from B&Q in Romford, taking his daughter with him.
When Ms O'Leary arrived back at her flat at 7.15pm, less than three hours before the attack, she found Redouane waiting outside the block in Butt's red Vauxhall Corsa.
'I said where's my daughter? Why is she wet? He said he didn't have time to change her. [I said] carry her into the flat because I didn't want to get wee all over me.'
Redouane carried his daughter inside and she said: 'I asked him if he was seeing her tomorrow, he didn't reply.'
Instead, Raedouane went to his pocket, said, 'I've forgotten my phone' and then 'dashed,' she said.
CCTV showed him running from the block and back to the car, to meet up with the other two men, who were in the van outside Zaghba's flat.
Ms O'Leary realised Redouane had taken the baby walking reins with him and tried to ring him, then sent a message on Whatsapp, but he rejected the call and did not reply to the message.
Emergency services are pictured swarming London Bridge and the surrounding area on the night of the terror attack in 2017
The trio hired this van (pictured in the hours after the attack) to mow down innocent people as they enjoyed an evening out in the London Bridge area
She knew nothing of what her husband had done until police raided her flat early the next morning.
Asked if she had 'any inkling he was capable of such behaviour', Ms O'Leary said: 'No.'
'You agree no doubt that what Rachid Redouane did that night was a horror?' Victoria Ailes, for six of the bereaved families asked.
'Yes,' she said.
Asked if she had 'any clues' about what her husband was about to do, Ms O'Leary said: 'Nothing.'
'As far as you are concerned his behaviour was normal throughout?' Ms Ailes said.
'Yes,' Ms O'Leary replied.
During the inquest Ms O'Leary revealed the background to her relationship with Redouane - and how she had noticed not major signs of extremism during their time together.
However, his religion did cause tension in the family and her brother would not speak to her for six months before they married 'because he was a Muslim' she added.
'I just thought they was good people. He would like me to have converted but that was never going to happen. I said it on day one it was never going to happen.'
This map shows the route the terrorists took as they murdered eight people in central London
In May 2013, after the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, Redouane told his wife it was the 'government's fault' she said.
Asked if it alarmed her, Ms O'Leary said: 'Not at the time, I thought he was talking rubbish and I told him that.'
She would never meet his friends but would sometimes come home to find photos of her had been put away and work out from that he had been entertaining friends in the flat.
'I was never around his friends because that was, as far as I knew, the way Muslims was,' she said. 'He never had his friends around when I was at home. I was never present.'
The relationship went downhill and he struck Ms O'Leary in an argument over the heating of their baby's milk before they split up in January 2017, the inquest heard.
'He become distant towards me and didn't help me financially or emotionally,' Ms O'Leary said.
In the last couple of months of their relationship, Redouane started to express some views about Western lifestyles, saying disapproving things about the way that people dressed on TV and that programmes might turn their baby daughter gay.
'He didn't like it if we had certain music channels or TV channels because if there was gay people there, he said it would turn her gay,' she told the inquest.
When terrorist attacks happened in Britain, he tried to show her a video on Youtube that showed battle scenes in the Middle East.
'He tried to show me but I didn't want to watch it,' she said. 'Families, mothers, children. When there was attacks here, he would bring it up.'
Breaking down in tears, Ms O'Leary said, that at the time of the Manchester Arena attack in May, they had a short conversation: 'He just said, 'Did you see what happened in Manchester on the news?' and I said, 'Yeh, terrible' because I remember the youngsters that had passed away. He didn't comment.'
Asked if she was alarmed that Redouane was unmoved by the 'horrific events in Manchester', Ms O'Leary said: 'No. He just didn't comment back when I said it was terrible.'
The couple married in Dublin in December 2012 and lived together until Redouane returned to Morocco in autumn 2013.
Butt and his co-accused Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove this van, pictured
