Extreme content Southport killer viewed remains online, Yvette Cooper warns

The Home Secretary wrote to Elon Musk’s X, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, TikTok, Google and YouTube successful precocious January calling connected them to “urgently review” worldly accessed by Rudakubana.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, Ms Cooper claimed worldly remains online contempt her calls for it to beryllium removed.

She told the BBC: “There has been immoderate further interaction with immoderate of the societal media companies, but our knowing is that galore of those materials… that worldly is inactive disposable online.

“I think, frankly, that is disgraceful, due to the fact that I deliberation they person a motivation work to act.”

Under the UK’s Online Safety Act, from March platforms volition beryllium required to region amerciable content, including convulsive material.

Ms Cooper said the Government is consenting to spell further if societal media giants bash not comply.

She said: “We request to bring successful the requirements to marque definite we’ve got those ineligible powers successful spot and we volition instrumentality that.

“We are being wide that we are prepared to spell further if the Online Safety Act measures are not moving arsenic efficaciously arsenic we request them to do.”

Ms Cooper antecedently warned failing to region the videos from societal media could pb to further attacks similar that carried retired by Rudakubana.

The 18-year-old was jailed for beingness with a minimum word of 52 years aft pleading blameworthy to murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, astatine a creation people successful Southport past July.

He besides admitted attempting to execution 8 different children and 2 adults, possession of a knife, accumulation of a biologic toxin, ricin, and possessing accusation apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing to perpetrate an enactment of terrorism.

Before leaving home, helium had searched online for “Mar Mari Emmanuel stabbing” – the weapon onslaught connected a bishop successful Sydney, Australia, successful April past year.

The graphic video was removed successful Australia but is inactive disposable to presumption successful the UK, Ms Cooper and Science Secretary Peter Kyle said successful a missive to the tech bosses.

Rudakubana besides had a PDF record entitled Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al Qaeda Training Manual, which led to him facing the complaint nether Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

The ministers warned the slayer had been capable to easy get this papers online and it “continues to stay available”.