Counsellor ‘harassed mental health services to examine Reading terror attacker’
by Ellie Ng
Jan 23, 2024
3 minutes
A counsellor “harassed” mental health services to examine the Reading terror attacker after struggling to get him help in the year before the killings, an inquest has heard.
Libyan refugee Khairi Saadallah fatally stabbed friends James Furlong, 36, Dr David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, on June 20 2020 in the town’s Forbury Gardens.
Three other people – Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan – were also injured before Saadallah threw away the 8ins (20cm) knife and ran off, pursued by an off-duty police
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