school days at Huntleys Secondary School for Boys

"He would go out locally to pubs and clubs and his mother believes that Masood would go looking for a fight after drinking," he told the inquests.

Despite this violence, his working life appeared to begin well. He was taken on to as a trainee manager for the now-defunct department store Woolworths, and moved to Hastings.

But in October 1983, aged 18, he was convicted of criminal damage and fined £15.

He later walked out of Woolworths and in 1988, when he was 23-years-old, he was arrested in possession of an offensive weapons and for threatening behaviour.

Later he got into a row on a bus, leading to arrest for assault causing bodily harm. Then in 1990 he ripped a telephone from a wall ina restaurant and began to fight officers trying to arrest him.

Adrian Ajao began his first serious relationship the same year after meeting Jane Harvey in Tunbridge Wells. They would go on to have two children and lived in the village of Northiam, East Sussex.

She later told police he was powerful, charming and intelligent - but she would be scared when he was drunk - and they separated once after he hurt her in an incident.

Four years into the relationship, he enrolled at The University of Sussex and graduated with a degree in economics - but his hopes of a career in finance was blocked by his criminal record.

So he began working for his partner's firm, staying there until a more serious act of violence led to prison.

In 2000,