James Furlong, Dr David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett were killed by Khairi Saadallah in a park in Reading in June 2020.
The deaths of the Reading terror attack victims were 'probably avoidable' and contributed to by the failings of multiple agencies, an inquest has found. Friends James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, were stabbed to death by Khairi Saadallah, now 29, in Forbury Gardens on 20 June 2020. Three other people were also injured before Saadallah, who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' , threw away the eight-inch knife and ran off, pursued by an off-duty police officer.
MI5 'triaged' him on four separate occasions, once opening a 'lead investigation', but the security service said they found no evidence he planned to leave the country or commit an attack. Saadallah had a string of previous convictions for offences including violence and possession of a knife, and spent repeated spells in jail between 2015 and 2020.
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