https://www.gbnews.com/news/reading-terrorist-khairi-saadallah-home-office-failings
A terrorist who murdered three people was allowed to stay in the country after a series of “woeful” Home Office errors.
Khairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on Saturday June 20, 2020.
Now, an inquest has heard how Saadallah had wrongly been granted five years’ humanitarian leave to remain by the Home Office.
The department made a series of "woeful" errors in handling the case, which included allowing him to stay in the country even though he had served five prison sentences for violent offences.
At the inquest, director of the Foreign National Offender Returns Command Jane Sutton said: "There are a number of errors made throughout the entirety of [Saadallah’s] engagement with the Home Office and immigration department and, at times, the quality of our work and interaction with him fell below the quality and standards that would have been expected."
When asked by Nicholas Moss KC: "Did it fall below by quite some margin on more than one occasion?" Sutton responded: "Yes."
The inquest was told that the Home Office had no record of Saadallah’s arrival in Britain on a multiple-entry tourist visa with his father in March 2012 and again in September 2012, reports The Times.
The department also had no record of his failure to depart by the visa expiry date on September 28 before he claimed asylum on October 16.
A terrorist who murdered three people was allowed to stay in the country after a series of “woeful” Home Office errors.
Khairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on Saturday June 20, 2020.
Now, an inquest has heard how Saadallah had wrongly been granted five years’ humanitarian leave to remain by the Home Office.
The department made a series of "woeful" errors in handling the case, which included allowing him to stay in the country even though he had served five prison sentences for violent offences.
At the inquest, director of the Foreign National Offender Returns Command Jane Sutton said: "There are a number of errors made throughout the entirety of [Saadallah’s] engagement with the Home Office and immigration department and, at times, the quality of our work and interaction with him fell below the quality and standards that would have been expected."
When asked by Nicholas Moss KC: "Did it fall below by quite some margin on more than one occasion?" Sutton responded: "Yes."
The inquest was told that the Home Office had no record of Saadallah’s arrival in Britain on a multiple-entry tourist visa with his father in March 2012 and again in September 2012, reports The Times.
The department also had no record of his failure to depart by the visa expiry date on September 28 before he claimed asylum on October 16.
