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The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

SHOCKING: Reading terror attack deaths were avoidable inquest finds - You Need To See This

A female police officer lays flowers by a wall, as another looks on
A police officer lays flowers, given by a member of the public, at an entrance of Forbury Gardens in Reading in June 2020. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

The deaths of three people during a terror attack in Reading were avoidable, an inquest has determined.

A judge coroner sitting at the Old Bailey on Friday said failings in intelligence sharing and in providing psychiatric care contributed to the failure to prevent the attack that took the lives of James Furlong, Dr David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett in June 2020.

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