"Shocking" graffiti supporting London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan has emerged in Stoke-on-Trent

Vile graffiti supporting the double-murderer behind the London Bridge terrorist attack has appeared on a house in Stoke-on-Trent.

"Usman Khan Call 4 Justice" has been scribbled on a boarded-up Midland Heart property at the junction of Rushton Road and Waterloo Road in Cobridge.

The words have been tagged with the letters 'COB' which is believed to refer to a gang calling themselves the 'Cobridge Boys'.

The vandalism emerged days after former Haywood High School student Khan, 28, was shot dead by police after he went on a knife rampage on November 29.

In the attack he killed Saskia Jones, 23, from Stratford-Upon-Avon and Jack Merritt, 25, from Cambridge.

Residents in the area where the graffiti has appeared have described it as "shocking" and the words have "made everybody feel uneasy".

Khan is said to be one of six children raised by taxi driver Taj and his wife Parveen. The family grew up in Cobridge and one of his siblings still lives in the area.

Khan – who also went by the name of Abu Saif – became radicalised in Stoke-on-Trent and was part of a group of young Muslim activists who manned a stall and handed out leaflets in Waterloo Road, near where the graffiti was found.

Following the terror attack at London's Fishmongers' Hall, a number of properties in Staffordshire have been raidedand searched by police.

Kahn's body was secretly flown back to his family's ancestral village of Kajlani in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Khan's relatives issued a statement last week denouncing his attack and expressing condolences to the victims' families.

It read: "We are saddened and shocked by what Usman has done. We totally condemn his actions and we wish to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery to all of the injured."

Khan was arrested in 2010 with two others from Stoke-on-Trent as part of a nine-member Al Qaeda plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange. The group also had plans to set up a terrorist training factory on land owned by Khan’s family in Pakistan occupied PoK.

He and his co-conspirators were found guilty of terror offences following a trial. Khan was initially given an indeterminate jail sentence, which was later reduced to 16 years on appeal.

He was freed in December last year after serving half his sentenceafter he managed to fool the authorities into believing he was de-radicalised.