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Knife crime campaign
PICTURE POSED BY MODEL THE Reading Chronicle is launching a campaign revolving around knife crime following a rise in tragic deaths in the town. Sadly, over the last year multiple people have lost their lives due to knife crime. In June 2020, a lone knifeman stormed Forbury Gardens and killed three men, James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39. In January this year, 13-year-old Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Bugs Bottom in Caversham. Two men have also lost their lives due to knife crime in the last month alone. Raheem Hanif, 26, was stabbed on February 6 after reports of a fight in Dulnan Close in Tilehurst.
Jailed this month in Berkshire WE RE almost at the end of January and so far this year a number of cases have been brought before the courts. Many suspects have faced judges and juries and below and some people in Berkshire who face lengthy sentences behind bars.
James Devlin James Devlin. Picture: Thames Valley Police A MAN who threatened two pensioners with knives and demanded gold and money from them was jailed earlier this month. James Devlin, aged 19, of Kingsmill Drive, Northolt, Ealing, admitted the offence in a hearing at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday (January 13). Returning to the same court for sentencing on Friday (January 15), Devlin was sentenced to a total of eight years and two months’ imprisonment.
Jun 22, 2020 11:49 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) The English town of Reading mourned Monday for three people stabbed to death in what is being treated as a terror attack, gathering for a moment of silence as police questioned the suspected lone attacker.
More than 100 students lit candles and laid flowers in memory of history teacher James Furlong, who was named as one of the victims. At Holt School in nearby Wokingham, where he taught, a flag in the courtyard had been lowered to half-staff.
“He was so passionate and enthusiastic about history and about learning, and anything that was boring, anything you didn’t find interesting, he would make it interesting,″ former student Molly Collins told the BBC. “He would spend time with you, he got to know people individually, and he just always went the extra mile for everyone.”
The family of a man killed by a terror attacker in a stabbing spree said they are looking forward to working alongside the Home Secretary at an inquest and hope for meaningful changes .
US citizen Joseph Ritchie-Bennett (39), history teacher James Furlong (36) and scientist Dr David Wails (49) who was a former researcher at Queen s University Belfast, were stabbed to death by 26-year-old failed Libyan asylum seeker Khairi Saadallah in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on June 20 last year.
Saadallah fought for the extremist Islamic Ansar al-Sharia group in Libya.
Three other people - Stephen Young (51), Patrick Edwards (29) and Nishit Nisudan (34) - were also injured before Saadallah threw away the eight-inch knife and ran off, pursued by an off-duty police officer.