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Southport killer able to buy a blade on Amazon aged 17 despite conviction for violence

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says public bodies ‘completely failed to identify the terrible danger’ Axel Rudakubana posed

Evening Standard

Rudakubana’s family ‘devastated’ and living in secret location, church says

Leaders of The Community Church said Axel Rudakubana’s father Alphonse had been a valued member of the congregation.

Evening Standard

Southport: Axel Rudakubana’s family ‘devastated’ and living in secret location

Leaders of The Community Church said Axel Rudakubana’s father Alphonse had been a valued member of the congregation.

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Inquiry should be free to seek answers without ‘ridiculous nonsense’ online – MP

Patrick Hurley warned that speculation by ‘public figures who should know better’ could have caused a trial over the Southport attack to collapse.

Evening Standard

Britain facing new terror threat from generation of ‘young men in their bedrooms’, Starmer warns

PM lays groundwork for an overhaul of terrorism laws to capture the new threat of ‘loners and misfits’ driven to acts of extreme violence by ‘all manner of material online’

The Independent UK

Man who confronted Axel Rudakubana moments before Southport attack had no idea of ‘unspeakable’ horror ahead

Exclusive: Colin Parry said ‘evil’ Axel Rudakubana ‘knew what he was here for’ as he relived encounter with killer

The Independent UK

Southport killer: what was known when?

Axel Rudakubana was known to agencies before carrying out the killings.

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Southport killer: What was known when?

Axel Rudakubana was known to agencies before carrying out the killings.

The Independent UK

What is Prevent? The anti-terror unit that Golders Green attack suspect was referred to

The suspect was detained and arrested by officers in Golders Green following the suspected terror attack

The Independent UK

Starmer denies ‘cover up’ over Southport killings

PM defends decision to keep Axel Rudakubana’s violent background secret, insisting it was vital to ensure he faced justice

The Independent UK

Southport murderer bought weapons and ricin-making equipment two years before attack

Axel Rudakubana bought items on Amazon to make lethal poison three years after he came to attention of authorities

The Guardian - UK

Horror inside summer holiday dance class

Axel Rudakubana armed himself with a large kitchen knife before heading to the Taylor Swift themed even for children.

Evening Standard

What we know about the Southport public inquiry so far

A public inquiry into Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana has been announced by the Home Secretary.

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Home Secretary announces inquiry into how Rudakubana ‘came to be so dangerous’

The 18-year-old killer will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday.

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Southport killer spoke in court for first time to enter guilty pleas

The 18-year-old had not put forward a defence case statement and lawyers were not planning to advance a positive case on his behalf at trial.

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How Southport’s community came together in wake of dance class triple murder

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died following the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed class.

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Axel Rudakubana attempted to travel to former school a week before attack

It can now be reported that teachers had concerns about his behaviour.

The Independent UK

Southport killer ‘tried to take a taxi to school that expelled him’ week before dance class atrocity

Axel Rudakubana’s father stopped the teen from travelling to the school that kicked him out, it is understood

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Who are the victims of Axel Rudakubana’s attack?

Three girls were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed class last year.

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Axel Rudakubana ordered taxi to school he was expelled from a week before attack

Rudakubana was excluded from Range High School in Formby in around 2019.

The Independent UK

Southport stabbing: Everything we know about attack as Axel Rudakubana handed sentence

Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to all charges at Liverpool Crown Court

The Independent UK

Axel Rudakubana: How a violence-obsessed teen unleashed horror at Southport children’s dance class

The frenzied attack was described as like a scene from a disaster film when he targeted the girls while a teacher and a grandfather nearby bravely tried to defend the class

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not what Southport is’: how a deadly attack changed a town … and a country

Ripples from Axel Rudakubana’s killing of three girls spread wide and deep, from the personal to the political

The Independent UK

Axel Rudakubana made enough ricin to ‘kill 12,000 people’ as Met chief says attack wasn’t terrorism - latest

Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley said the Southport attack which claimed the lives of three young girls was ‘not an act of terrorism’

The Independent UK

Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana showed violent behaviour in school

He was excluded from his secondary school for an incident involving a hockey stick, the PA news agency understands.

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