Khairi Saadallah: The missed opportunities to stop Reading attacker An inquest into the deaths of Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, James Furlong and David Wails heard six weeks of evidence from witnesses including probation and immigration officials, police and MI5 officers.

April 26, 2024   

(Sky News) When three men were stabbed to death in Reading’s Forbury Gardens on Saturday, 20 June 2020, Nick Harborne instantly knew Khairi Saadallah was responsible.

“Something inside me just went cold,” he told Sky News.

The chief executive of the Reading Refugee Support Group had been warning community mental health teams, probation officers and the government’s Prevent de-radicalisation programme that Saadallah could carry out a London Bridge-style attack ever since Usman Khan killed two people in a knife rampage in the capital on [29] November 2019.

“I think this tragedy didn’t have to happen, it could have been avoided,” he said of the Reading attack.

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