Khairi Saadallah has pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder following his knife attack in Reading’s Forbury Gardens back in June.
All three of the victims, David Wails, James Furlong and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were “sorely missed” members of Reading’s LGBTQ+ community.
Their friend Stephen Young, and Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sat nearby, were also injured in the attack. The court heard that the day before the attack, Saadallah had purchased a large kitchen knife and that during the attack, witnesses said they heard him shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and “victory on infidels.” Prosecutors say that Saadallah had acted “without warning or provocation” and left victims with