Reading Terror Attacker Was ‘Pretty Indiscriminate’ in Targeting Victims, Senior Police Officer Tells Inquest

LONDON—The police officer in charge of the investigation into the murder of three gay men in a park by an Islamist terrorist in June 2020 has told an inquest the killer appeared to be “pretty indiscriminate” in choosing his targets. James Furlong, 36, Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, were stabbed to death in Forbury Gardens in Reading by Libyan-born Khairi Saadallah—who was facing deportation—on June 20, 2020. The inquest into their deaths began at the Old Bailey on Monday and Detective Chief Superintendent Oliver Wright, from Counter-Terrorism Policing South East, was asked by counsel to the inquest, Nicholas Moss, KC, if homophobia could have played a part in Saadallah’s attacks....