THE manager of the hotel where murderer Khalid Masood spent his final night before making his attack on Westminster has spoken of his shock.

Sabeur Toumi, who has been the manager of Preston Park hotel for 13 years, spoke to The Argus after it was revealed Masood checked into the hotel.

Masood walked in off the street to book a room for Tuesday night and checked in at 1pm.

Mr Toumi remembered him to be 'really friendly and chatty' and told the hotel manager he was visiting friends in the south.

“All his documentation, registration details like his address in Birmingham, matched," Mr Toumi said.

Masood went to his room and as far as Mr Toumi knows he was not seen in the public areas of the hotel again.

He did not have breakfast and Mr Toumi did not see him check out the next morning but he thinks that he left early.

The hotel manager believes the car that he left in the car park was a hire car and the same used in the Westminster attack.

He said: "It is shocking and bizarre to know a guest then carried out this attack and then to know he was going to do it when he was staying with us.

"If I look back this person was friendly and there was nothing suspicious about him.

"It is very scary to be honest to think about what he was going to next and to think that he probably knew he was going to die when he was here.

"And also it is scary to think that he could have done this here or anywhere."

Mr Toumi said he was now supporting his staff who were very shaken up by the news.

He revealed police would be returning to the hotel he said to question more staff they had not yet been able to speak to.