Wednesday, January 06, 2021

Reading knifeman bought weapon he used to kill three

 Khairi Saadallah pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders

  • The attacks took place in Forbury Gardens, Reading, last summer on June 20
  • Saadallah was allowed to associate with radical preacher Omar Brooks in prison

A killer who denies being a terrorist after stabbing three people to death in Reading has been pictured clutching a Kalashnikov while video footage has revealed the moment he bought the knife he used to kill his victims. 

Khairi Saadallah, 26, pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders but denies terrorist motives. 

He killed James Furlong, David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett in Forbury Gardens in Reading on June 20 last year.

It comes after other footage revealed the moment a policeman visited Saadallah and told him he was 'not in trouble' while standing metres away from a bag containing the knife he would use just 24 hours later to kill three and wound three more 'for jihad'.

Body-worn camera footage reveals the discussion between Saadallah - only out of prison days before -  and two officers, in which the Islamist extremist pledges he's 'off the trouble' and looking to get his life back on track by working.

The following day, however, on June 20 last year, Saadallah would carry out a terrorist atrocity using the weapon police were just inches away from when visiting the killer.

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