Mum of sisters murdered by stranger in park makes key demand to save lives

Mina Smallman, whose daughters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were murdered successful 2020, called connected ministers to acceptable up a caller bureau targeting toxic masculinity

The heartbroken mum of 2 women murdered by a unsafe alien successful a parkland has demanded tougher enactment tackling "toxic masculinity".

Mina Smallman, parent of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, said the Government indispensable acceptable up a instrumentality enforcement bureau specifically to look astatine convulsive misogyny. Bibaa and Nicole were murdered successful June 2020 by 18-year-old Danyal Hussein, who had antecedently been monitored by the Prevent programme, which targets extremism.

Ms Smallman told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the Government indispensable bash much to halt young men being radicalised and carrying retired horrific acts of violence.

She said: "You request different bureau that looks wholly astatine the radicalisation of young men, toxic masculinity. Also we request to code the acheronian web."

Women's information campaigner Ms Smallman said: "I deliberation they request to beryllium much nimble to beryllium flexible to due to the fact that things are moving truthful rapidly successful presumption of radicalisation of our young men, that we request to drawback them earlier they fall."

Ms Smallman said: "If you see that it costs astir £125,000 per twelvemonth to incarcerate a youth. Why aren't we investing immoderate of that wealth successful educating successful schools and putting younker programs together, giving intent to our young people?

"They're fodder for the transgression scene, from being induced to articulation gangs, they're being induced to beryllium groomed successful their bedrooms online. We request to bash thing astir this."

Her daughter's slayer had been progressive connected Satanic net forums earlier the attack. Police discovered helium had drawn up a declaration with a demon, signed successful his ain blood, saying helium would execution six women each six months successful instrumentality for fiscal reward.

He had been monitored by Prevent successful 2017 and 2018 aft accessing far-right worldly connected a schoolhouse computer. Hussein preyed connected the sisters arsenic they celebrated Bibaa's day successful Fryent Country Park successful North London portion Covid restrictions banned indoor gatherings.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the Southport murders by teen Axel Rudakubana has exposed "networks of failure" successful monitoring of convulsive individuals. She said: "There isn't a wide operation for work for whose work it should be. There's a web of antithetic organisations who each person a partial responsibility."

The Government frontbencher said: "I deliberation the strategy needs to beryllium strengthened due to the fact that wherever there's an issue, for example, wherever we cognize there's a wide ideology involved, that you person idiosyncratic wherever there's wide grounds of Islamist extremism, for example, we person the Prevent programme and besides counter-terrorism police.

"If you person idiosyncratic who is demonstrating different kinds of obsession with utmost violence, really the interaction of what they bash whitethorn beryllium terrorising successful precisely the aforesaid way."

She said a reappraisal is being carried connected the effectiveness of the Prevent strategy to look astatine however it tin woody with convulsive extremism wherever determination is nary wide idology. " Ms Cooper added: "My beardown presumption is that the strategy is not beardown enough."

She pointed to younker prevention partnerships arsenic a measurement the caller Government is taking to people at-risk youngsters, but said further proposals would beryllium enactment guardant arsenic lessons from Southport are learned.