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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England editor

UNBELIEVABLE: Police failed to arrest southport killer when caught with knife two years before attack | History Defined

Axel Rudakubana looking into the camera
After Axel Rudakubana was caught with a knife on a bus, police took him home and gave his mother ‘advice regarding securing knives in the home’. Photograph: Merseyside Police/PA

Police told Axel Rudakubana’s mother to keep knives out of his reach two years before the Southport attack, after he was caught carrying a blade on a bus.

Lancashire police are facing questions over their handling of the “sadistic” teenager in the years before he murdered three young girls and tried to kill 10 others at a Taylor Swift dance class last summer.

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