London Bridge terrorist Rachid Redouane kissed baby daughter goodbye just THREE hours before the attack in visit to estranged wife’s flat
The couple split in January after a number of arguments over Rachid's strict beliefs
FANATIC Rachid Redouane made a secret trip to kiss his baby daughter goodbye just hours before the London Bridge atrocity.
The Moroccan-born killer, 30, cradled 17-month-old Amina in his arms during the visit to estranged wife Charisse O’Leary’s flat.
Pals said Redouane arrived at the social housing block shortly after Charisse, 38, returned from a barbecue at a friend’s house.
The jihadist, believed to have been radicalised on a trip back to Morocco, signed into the visitor’s register at reception shortly before 7pm.
Three hours later, at 10.08pm, the pastry chef and two other maniacs launched the worst terror attack to hit London since 7/7.
One mum who lives at the complex in Barking, East London, said: “One of my friends lives on the third floor and she told she me he came to say his last goodbye.”
Just a fortnight before she had posted a picture of herself on Facebook with a Union Jack heart symbol in tribute to the Manchester victims.
She was bundled into an unmarked police vehicle while Amina was taken away in another car by specialist officers.
Last night care worker Charisse, who has also worked as a PA, was released without charge by cops.
Sources told The Sun the couple split in January after a series of rows over his strict beliefs.
They said she had become sick of his Islamist and homophobic views.
Charisse told a friend: “He was always really selfish and I gave up so much for him. I was never going to convert and become a Muslim. There’s no way I was going to do that.
“I just didn’t agree with what he wanted. He didn’t want Amina to eat pork or go to dance classes and I wasn’t having that.
“He didn’t want her watching things on TV either in case it made her ‘gay’.”
Redouane is believed to have arrived in the UK in 2006 and lived in Harrow, North West London.
He is thought to have had a series of kitchen-hand jobs before moving to Manchester in 2009.
It was there that Redouane, who was not on the radar of cops or spooks, met Charisse.
They moved to Ireland and married in Dublin in 2012. Three years later, with Charisse pregnant, they moved to Barking.
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A neighbour told The Sun: “I saw him a couple of months ago. We just talked about the kids.
“He wanted his daughter to follow the Muslim faith but she said ‘No, I’ll let her make her own decision.’ She never converted.
“She wouldn’t have stood for what he believed in, going around killing people.”
The Sun can also reveal Redouane told pals he had to return home to Casablanca “for personal reasons” in 2014 .
Last night Moroccan security sources told The Sun an investigation into him had been launched.
One key line of inquiry will focus on how long he spent in Morocco and who he met while there.
Yesterday Charisse’s neighbours said one woman had jumped from a third-floor window in panic as armed cops with stun grenades stormed the building.
One said: “There was a huge bang like a grenade going off and then you could hear a woman shouting, ‘Don’t shoot me! Don’t shoot me!’
"A lady in another flat panicked and jumped out of a window in sheer terror. She was taken to hospital but wasn’t badly hurt.”
Charisse’s brother Patrick O’Leary, of Dagenham, said: “I don’t know anything about this. You know more than I do.
"I’m trying to find out as much as I can. Rachid always seemed like a nice guy.”
Hassane Bousraf, 47, a former neighbour in Harrow, said: “He was a kind man, always with a smile on his face. Rachid was never a religious man. He told me he didn’t go to the mosque.
“I wouldn’t have thought he had such evil in him. If he was radicalised, it must have been when went back to Morocco.”
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