Reading stabbings: Officer ‘missed terrorist threat’ before killings

(BBC) A police officer missed opportunities to report the risk posed by the killer of three men in Reading’s Forbury Gardens, an inquest has heard.

Khairi Saadallah stabbed James Furlong, 36, Dr David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, to death in 2020.

Counter-terrorism officer Det Sgt Daniel Spiers previously reported that Saadallah was “not a national security threat,” the Old Bailey inquest heard.

However, the officer told the court he regretted his judgement.

Det Sgt Spiers was tasked with assessing Saadallah after the former Libyan child soldier was released from prison in June 2019.

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