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Khairi Saadallah spent many spells in and out of prison by 2020 for Nikki Mitchell
offences including assaulting police officers and emergency workers, racially Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC South
aggravated harassment and possessing knives. The conclusions of the judge
On one occasion, while being arrested, he called a female coroner, Sir Adrian Fulford, so far have been damning.
officer a "slave" and spat in her face. The victim said it was the He identified failures
"vilest thing" she had been subjected to in the police. by "one or more identified state agents" and organisations to protect lives.
Saadallah, who spent time in Manchester and Reading, lived a He
chaotic lifestyle involving periods of homelessness, as well as drug and said Saadallah was a "known extremist" with a "terrorist mindset", and his "settling on jihad as a solution to his turmoil" could have been "avoided".
alcohol misuse. We’ve heard many details about
Judge coroner Sir Adrian Fulford said a “cursory review” of Saadallah’s Saadallah’s life.
offending in 2020 showed a “deterioration” of his behaviour. He’s a former child soldier from Libya, who fought with
extremist Islamic militia during and after fall of the Gaddafi regime.
Since his arrival in the UK as an asylum seeker, he had frequent contact with
numerous authorities.
He told professionals he had killed people, tortured
people, that he wanted to kill others, could envisage killing others and then
killing himself.
Sir Adrian said, with "extremism on one hand and mental health on the other" all key agencies should
have been informed, and should have considered, the "totality" of all
background information about Saadallah.
That was "crucial" in assessing
the risk he posed. The fact that continuing intelligence collected on Saadallah
was "not fully assessed" fell far below necessary standards.
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