A public inquiry will be held into the Southport attacks, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced.It comes after 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to killing three girls – six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar.Cooper said their families “needed answers” about he lead-up to the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the town last year.Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack, had been referred to the Prevent programme three times, Cooper said, between December 2019 and April 2021 when he was aged 13 and 14 years old.The killer was already known to police, the courts and social services, she said, “yet between them, those agencies failed to identify the terrible risk and danger to others that he posed”.Rudakubana admitted 16 charges, including the murder of the three girls on 29 July last year, with not guilty pleas entered on his behalf at a court hearing in December last year.He also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of eight children and two adults, possession of a knife on the day of the murders, producing a biological toxin, ricin, and the possession of an al-Qaeda training manual – a terror offence.There has been criticism of the authorities withholding information about Rudakubana’s interest in violence and terrorism from the Conservatives and Reform UK.However, Cooper said lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service had been clear these details “could not be made public before today to avoid jeopardising the legal proceedings or prejudicing the possible jury trial, in line with the normal rules of the British justice systems”.Now there …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnA public inquiry will be held into the Southport attacks, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced.It comes after 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to killing three girls – six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar.Cooper said their families “needed answers” about he lead-up to the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the town last year.Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack, had been referred to the Prevent programme three times, Cooper said, between December 2019 and April 2021 when he was aged 13 and 14 years old.The killer was already known to police, the courts and social services, she said, “yet between them, those agencies failed to identify the terrible risk and danger to others that he posed”.Rudakubana admitted 16 charges, including the murder of the three girls on 29 July last year, with not guilty pleas entered on his behalf at a court hearing in December last year.He also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of eight children and two adults, possession of a knife on the day of the murders, producing a biological toxin, ricin, and the possession of an al-Qaeda training manual – a terror offence.There has been criticism of the authorities withholding information about Rudakubana’s interest in violence and terrorism from the Conservatives and Reform UK.However, Cooper said lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service had been clear these details “could not be made public before today to avoid jeopardising the legal proceedings or prejudicing the possible jury trial, in line with the normal rules of the British justice systems”.Now there …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
