Court rules Reading attacker was ‘performing religious jihad’
Prosecutors of Khairi Saadallah, 26, who killed three gay men in Reading last year, said he was “performing an act of religious jihad”, despite previous court hearings ruling out a terrorist motive. James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, were killed on 20 June 2020, with Saadallah admitting to all three accounts of murder. According to The Sun, prosecutor Alison Morgan said: “In the early evening of 20 June 2020, James Furlong, David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett were with friends sitting in Forbury Gardens in Reading.
