Reading stabbings: Saadallah joined Libyan terror group

(BBC) A killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park joined a terrorist group in Libya a decade before moving to the UK, an inquest has heard.

Khairi Saadallah killed James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in June 2020.

The Libyan refugee shouted “Allahu akbar” in Forbury Gardens before attacking the men.

An inquest at the Old Bailey heard he joined a proscribed Islamist group in 2011.

The terrorist group was created during the Arab Spring uprising against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

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