Reading terror attacker handed whole-life sentence for park murders
direct to your inboxA terrorist who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life sentence.Khairi Saadallah, 26, shouted “Allahu akhbar” as he attacked friends James Furlong, 36, Dr David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, killing all three.Saadallah launched the "swift, ruthless" knife attack as the group were sitting in Forbury Gardens on June 20 last year, a court heard.Three other people – Stephen Young, 51, Patrick Edwards, 29, and Nishit Nisudan, 34 – were also injured.Following the attack, Saadallah threw away his eight-inch blade and ran as an off-duty police officer tried to catch him.As he was detained, a Muslim member of the public told him: “You have nothing to do with Islam,