Police stopped Reading terror suspect a day before attack

Police intercepted the Reading terror suspect on the street just hours before he allegedly went on the rampage, the Daily Mail can reveal. A specialist mental health team was asked to search for Khairi Saadallah after officials failed to find him during a routine check at his home last Friday. Later that evening, just before … Read more

Police stopped Reading terror suspect Khairi Saadallah a day before attack

Police intercepted the Reading terror suspect on the street just hours before he allegedly went on the rampage, the Daily Mail can reveal. A specialist mental health team was asked to search for Khairi Saadallah after officials failed to find him during a routine check at his home last Friday. Later that evening, just before midnight, … Read more

Reading terror attack suspect’s ‘brother’ claims he was defending himself during knife rampage

Reading terror attack suspect’s ‘brother’ claims he was defending himself during knife rampage and blasts the UK as ‘racist’ ‘F*** England,’ says man claiming to be Reading terror attack suspect’s brother Khairi Saadallah is accused of stabbing three people to death on Saturday night  Mo Saadallah says he ‘defended himself’ before adding ‘freedom for my … Read more

Security guard and eyewitness tells how Reading terror suspect attacked him a year earlier

A stunned eyewitness to the Reading terror attack was assaulted by suspect Khairi Saadallah in a bottle attack a year earlier. Sainsbury’s security guard Sydney McDonald, 65, was the victim in the court case that put Saadallah behind bars until just 16 days ago. Mr McDonald was on the scene in Forbury Gardens on Saturday when … Read more

Priti Patel says UK ‘learn lessons’ from Reading terror attack ‘to prevent this happening again’

Priti Patel signalled the Government plans to introduce a terror clampdown today as she visited the site of the Reading rampage that left three dead. The Home Secretary said it was  it was important to ‘learn the lessons’ of the bloody attack in the commuter town on Saturday evening as she met police officers in Forbury Gardens.  … Read more

Chilling movements of the Reading terror attacker as he chose victims before hero PC grounded him

As the knifeman approached his first victims, picnickers in the park believed he was simply playing a game. They described watching people collapse after the man appeared to ‘tap’ them.  Moments later, they spotted the knife and the blood, and heard people start to scream and run for their lives. A man killed three people … Read more

Reading terror suspect is ‘Libyan refugee’ who had ‘previously been to prison in UK’ 

The terror suspect accused of stabbing three people to death in Reading is believed to be a Libyan refugee who had previously been to prison in Britain. The 25-year-old, who has been named as Khairi Saadallah, was previously jailed for a minor non-terror offence, reports indicate. Counter-terrorism police will take over the investigation after the frenzied … Read more

Moment counter terror police carry out controlled explosion in raid

Counter-terrorism police swooped in on a block of flats to carry out a controlled explosion following the knife attack in Reading which saw three people stabbed to death.  Footage emerged today of what appeared to be a large number of counter-terror police performing a controlled explosion at the residence where the lone assailant who carried out … Read more

History teacher James Furlong is one of three people killed in Reading terror attack

A ‘kind and inspiring’ history teacher has today been named as one of the three people killed in a frenzied knife attack in Reading, since declared as a ‘terrorist incident’ by police. James Furlong, head of history at the Holt Community School in Wokingham, was stabbed to death during the incident in Forbury Gardens, Reading, … Read more

Terror attack in Reading: ‘Suspect a Libyan asylum seeker who was released from prison’

The terror suspect accused of stabbing three people to death and injuring three others in an attack in Reading is a 25-year-old ‘Libyan asylum seeker’ called Khairi Saadallah.   The suspect’s identity was revealed as counter-terrorism police declared yesterday’s attack a ‘terrorist incident’.  Counter-terrorism police will take over the investigation after the frenzied knife attack in … Read more