
Coroner Highlights String of Failures Before Reading Terror Attacks
Published on April 26, 2024
LONDON—A coroner has listed a string of failures by MI5, social workers, and mental health professionals which allowed a Libyan immigrant and ISIS sympathiser to murder three gay men in a park in Reading in June 2020. James Furlong, 36, Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, were stabbed to death in Forbury Gardens in Reading town centre by Khairi Saadallah—who was facing deportation back to Libya—on June 20, 2020. Saadallah came to Britain in 2012, having fought for Ansar al-Sharia, an Islamist terrorist group, in the Libyan civil war, and had several asylum applications rejected. He was released from Bullingdon prison 15 days before the attack....
