The Reading attacker, Libyan national named Khairi Saadallah, fought for a terrorist group in Libya and then lied in an asylum application, a UK Prosecutor has told The Independent.
Prosecutor Alison Morgan said when Saadallah traveled to the UK in 2012, he told Home Office officials that he was not involved in fighting and had been “helping wounded people” and making deliveries, claiming he had fled Ansar Al-Sharia after being told to torture loyalists to the former regime of Gaddafi at February revolution time.
Prosecutor Morgan said photos recovered from Saadallah’s electronic devices proved his account to be false, showing him holding guns and wearing military fatigues, fighting for Ansar Al-Sharia that is banned by Britain and other western countries.
The Independent said Saadallah previously committed numerous violent and criminal offences in the UK, and he was refused asylum and notified by the Home Office a day before he was freed from prison in June that he would be deported, yet he carried out the attack in Forbury Gardens a little over two weeks later, stabbing six people in under a minute, three of whom died.
