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.