Prevent, the government’s counter-terror programme, missed a number of chances to intervene in the actions of Axel Rudakubana before he killed three young girls in Southport last year, a review has been told.
A report assessing Rudakubana’s closed referrals to the programme years before he went on to murder three girls, and attempted to kill eight others and two adults, found too much focus was placed on the absence of a distinct ideology.
