Reading stabbings: Ceremony held on second anniversary of park attacks

(BBC) A minute’s silence and a flower-laying ceremony has been held in the park where three friends were stabbed during a terror attack.

James Furlong, 36, Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, were killed in June 2020 in Reading’s Forbury Gardens.

A service for family, friends and invited guests took place at St Laurence’s Church on Monday evening.

A public ceremony and flower-laying led by the men’s families and friends followed in the park.

The park’s Maiwand Lion was also illuminated throughout the evening in memory of the three men.

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