Reading terror stabbings inquest due to conclude - BBC News
Reading terror stabbings inquest due to conclude - BBC News
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Nikki Mitchell
Saadallah was "relatively stable" while at HMP Bullingdon over April, May and June 2020 - before his release in June, shortly before the attack - and more intervention "may have been" taken, Sir Adrian said.
Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC South
Before Saadallah was released from the prison, he had told people he wanted to stab someone.
The conclusions of the judge
But that crucial detail was not included in intelligence reports until two days after he had killed in Reading.
coroner, Sir Adrian Fulford, so far have been damning.
He identified failures
by "one or more identified state agents" and organisations to protect lives.
He
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".
We’ve heard many details about
Saadallah’s life.
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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