{"id":34911,"date":"2019-11-30T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=34911"},"modified":"2019-11-30T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T15:28:17","slug":"first-victim-on-london-bridge-attack-named-as-jack-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/first-victim-on-london-bridge-attack-named-as-jack-merritt\/","title":{"rendered":"London Bridge: Victim named as Jack Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Cambridge University graduate has been identified as one of the fatalities of the London Bridge attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jack Merritt, a course coordinator at Learning Together, attended the conference at Fishmongers&#8217; Hall on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Picks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/london-bridge-shut-down-after-gunfire\/\">London Bridge shut down &#8220;after gunfire&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/the-brothers-of-grime\/\">The Brothers of Grime<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/greta-thunberg-whats-the-big-deal\/\">Greta Thunberg \u2013 the 16-year-old activist, now author of the year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/how-historically-accurate-is-the-crown\/\">How historically accurate is The Crown?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His father confirmed his identity on Twitter: &#8220;My son, Jack, who was killed in the attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;R.I.P Jack: you were a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Merritt graduated from Cambridge in 2017. This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related stories:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/london-bridge-female-victim-named-named-as-saskia-jones\/\">London Bridge: Female victim named as Saskia Jones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/london-bridge-attacker-named-as-new-details-emerge\/\">London Bridge: Attacker named as Usman Khan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/stabbing-attack-in-the-netherlands-follows-london-attack\/\">Stabbing attack in the Netherlands follows London attack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/london-bridge-gunfire-incident-live-reactions\/\">London Bridge: Live reactions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/london-bridge-shut-down-after-gunfire\/\">London Bridge: Shut down \u201cafter gunfire\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Michelle Del Rey | Featured Image: Jack Merritt&#8217;s Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cambridge University graduate has been identified as one of the fatalities of the London Bridge attack. Jack Merritt, a course coordinator at Learning Together, attended the conference at Fishmongers&#8217; Hall on Friday. Editor&#8217;s Picks:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":34912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}