A specialist mental health team was asked to search for Khairi Saadallah after officials failed to find him during a routine check on Friday
Police officers collect flowers left at the Abbey gateway of Forbury Gardens, Reading following a multiple stabbing attack which took place on Saturday A specialist mental health team was asked to search for Khairi Saadallah after officials failed to find him during a routine check at his home last Friday.told the Daily MailSaadallah is believed to have then been taken home to his council flat in the south of the town – just hours before he is alleged to have stabbed three men to death.
Maria Eagle said: ‘The person who has been arrested suspected of these offences has been reported as being of interest to the security services as a potential terrorist sympathiser and was released well before the end of his sentence from a prison – a mere 16 days before this murderous rampage took place.
‘A psychiatric report dated May 21, 2019, from Dr Hasanen Al Taiar, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, concluded that he showed features of post-traumatic stress disorder and of emotionally unstable personality disorder.’Mr Wails is understood to have been a senior scientist at a global chemicals company.
Michael Main, a friend of Mr Wails and the other two victims, told the BBC he knew him as a regular at The Blagrave Arms pub.He said: ‘I drank with David probably every day. Every time I was in there, he was in there. We’d have a lot of banter. He was a banter person. He’s the one that hits me the most because I know him more and it’s just sad to know he’s gone so early.’The men were stabbed to death when a knifeman suddenly began attacking peopleThree others were seriously injured.
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