A stunned eyewitness to the Reading terror attack was assaulted by suspect Khairi Saadallah in a bottle attack a year earlier. Sainsbury’s security guard Sydney McDonald, 65, was the victim in the court case that put Saadallah behind bars until just 16 days ago. Mr McDonald was on the scene in Forbury Gardens on Saturday when … Read more
As the knifeman approached his first victims, picnickers in the park believed he was simply playing a game. They described watching people collapse after the man appeared to ‘tap’ them. Moments later, they spotted the knife and the blood, and heard people start to scream and run for their lives. A man killed three people … Read more
Counter-terrorism police swooped in on a block of flats to carry out a controlled explosion following the knife attack in Reading which saw three people stabbed to death. Footage emerged today of what appeared to be a large number of counter-terror police performing a controlled explosion at the residence where the lone assailant who carried out … Read more
Why was he not deported? Reading terror suspect is 25-year-old ‘Libyan refugee’ who had ‘previously been to prison in UK’ Terror suspect accused of stabbing three people ‘had previously been jailed’ The 25-year-old is thought to be Libyan refugee named Khairi Saadallah Reports indicate he had been previously jailed for a minor non-terror offence By … Read more
A ‘kind and inspiring’ history teacher has today been named as one of the three people killed in a frenzied knife attack in Reading, since declared as a ‘terrorist incident’ by police. James Furlong, head of history at the Holt Community School in Wokingham, was stabbed to death during the incident in Forbury Gardens, Reading, … Read more
The terror suspect accused of stabbing three people to death and injuring three others in an attack in Reading is a 25-year-old ‘Libyan asylum seeker’ called Khairi Saadallah. The suspect’s identity was revealed as counter-terrorism police declared yesterday’s attack a ‘terrorist incident’. Counter-terrorism police will take over the investigation after the frenzied knife attack in … Read more
Prince Harry admitted he ‘knew personally’ how important it is to ‘share your grief’ during a chat with a Tunisia terror attack survivor – and says he ‘didn’t talk enough’ after Princess Diana’s death Owen Richards, now 21, from the West Midlands, recalled Prince Harry exchange Was 16 when his brother, uncle and grandfather were … Read more
It’s been nearly 11 weeks since we were told that what we had previously thought of as normal daily life was to be shut down. Most of the activities we enjoyed would be off the menu: restaurants, hairdressers, dinner parties, garden centres, multi-generational family gatherings, sport. When Boris announced lockdown that evening of March 23, … Read more
‘We’re going to take you guys up a cliff and throw you off. Sound OK?’ a tattooed Kiwi man said to me and a few other people. I wasn’t ‘OK’ with it, but I was ready for the challenge. I’d signed myself up for the world’s highest cliff jump in a bid to conquer my … Read more
Britain First leader Paul Golding today claimed police were ‘completely unjustified’ in using terrorism legislation to ask for access to his mobile phone after he returned from a trip to Russia. The 38-year-old was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers at Heathrow Airport in October last year on his way back from visiting the Russian parliament … Read more