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THERE were 7 missed chances to halt the Southport killer, it tin beryllium revealed - arsenic a nationalist enquiry is acceptable to beryllium launched.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer contiguous has demanded answers arsenic to however the authorities "failed to support young girls" from Axel Rudakubana.
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It comes aft it emerged the 18-year-old convicted murderer was referred to anti-terror strategy Prevent THREE times earlier launching the attack past summer.
Six-year-old Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died astatine the country astatine the Hart Space connected Hart Street connected July 29.
A 3rd girl, nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar, died successful infirmary the time aft the incident.
Rudakubana pleaded blameworthy to 16 charges as...
- The victims' families were not successful court to spot his plea
- He showed violent behaviour portion successful precocious school
- He was reported to anti-terror programme 3 times
- Footage shows him pacing earlier getting taxi to creation class
- Prosecutor described onslaught arsenic "unspeakable" aft pleas
As his proceedings was owed to begin, connected Monday (January 20), helium pleaded blameworthy to each charges: 3 counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted execution and 2 terror-related charges.
A sentencing day has been acceptable for January 23, and Justice Goose said that a beingness bid was inevitable.
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
Rudakubana had been referred to the Prevent strategy connected 3 occasions owed to his involvement successful violence.
However, portion his behaviour was considered a interest helium was not accepted onto the programme owed to a deficiency of grounds of violent ideology.
Following his arrest, an exigency reappraisal concluded Prevent had followed close procedure.
Moment Southport slayer waits for taxi to creation people wherever helium murdered 3 girls
Rudakubana was calved in Cardiff to Rwandan parents and has an older brother.
He moved to Banks, a colony in Lancashire located a fewer miles from Southport, successful 2013.
As a child, Rudakubana displayed vicious behaviour successful schoolhouse arsenic his obsession with unit grew.
The teen, who is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, near Range High School successful Formby successful astir 2019 implicit claims helium brought a leaf into people and made threats to onslaught different pupil.
Police were called successful and the Year 9 pupil - past aged conscionable 13 - was sent location and aboriginal expelled.
What did Rudakubana admit and what happens now?
THE teen was owed to basal proceedings contiguous wherever details astir the onslaught would person been heard for the archetypal clip successful court.
As helium pleaded guilty, that accusation volition present beryllium revealed connected Thursday alternatively astatine his sentencing hearing.
As with astir tribunal cases, if a suspect admits the charges, the sentencing does not usually instrumentality spot connected the aforesaid day.
This allows prosecutors and defence lawyers to taxable applicable reports that volition beryllium taken into information by the judge.
Once the proceeding is underway, the prosecution volition unfastened the lawsuit - meaning each the accusation not antecedently heard volition beryllium work out.
Mr Justice Goose warned Rudakubana it is "inevitable" helium volition person a beingness sentence.
These are the 16 counts Rudakubana pleaded blameworthy to:
- Three counts of execution
- Eight counts of attempted execution successful narration to 8 different children
- Two counts of attempted execution against Leanne Lucas and Jonathan Hayes
- One number of possession of a bladed nonfiction successful a nationalist place, namely a room weapon with a curved blade
- One number of accumulation of a biologic toxin, namely ricin
- One of possession of accusation of a benignant apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing an enactment of terrorism, namely a PDF record entitled "Military Studies successful the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual".
But helium returned to his erstwhile schoolhouse equipped with a hockey instrumentality and a "hit list" of students helium wanted to attack.
Chillingly, conscionable 1 week earlier the attack, Rudakubana is feared to have plotted a akin attack on his aged school.
He booked a taxi - the aforesaid mode helium travelled to the Taylor Swift-themed creation people - nether a fake sanction from his location to instrumentality him to the Range High School.
It is believed he'd been readying to people pupils connected the past time of word arsenic they broke up for the summertime holidays.
But helium was stopped from making his travel erstwhile his begetter ran retired and intervened.
Rudakubana was past sent to a specializer schoolhouse but teachers became acrophobic implicit his behaviour.
His archetypal referral to Prevent successful 2019 came aft helium utilized computers astatine his ain schoolhouse to hunt for worldly connected a schoolhouse massacre.
Two years later, helium was referred again aft viewing worldly connected erstwhile panic attacks - including those successful London successful 2017.
Although determination were nary concerns implicit a peculiar ideology oregon spiritual hatred, his obsession with unit had caused fears.
But helium was not recovered to person posed a coercion hazard and truthful did not scope the threshold for involution by Prevent.
After 1 of the referrals, it was recommended that Rudakubana beryllium referred to different services but is not known if this happened.
INQUIRY
In a connection Sir Keir admitted the “state failed” successful its “ultimate duty” to support children safe.
Speaking retired for the archetypal clip since Rudakubana plead blameworthy in court today, the PM said: "Our thoughts are with the families of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, and the families of everyone affected, who volition beryllium saved the ordeal of a protracted trial.
"The news that the vile and sick Southport slayer volition beryllium convicted is welcome.
"It is besides a infinitesimal of trauma for the nation, and determination are sedate questions to reply arsenic to however the authorities failed successful its eventual work to support these young girls.
"Britain volition rightly request answers, and we volition permission nary chromatic unturned successful that pursuit.
"At the centre of this horrific event, determination is inactive a household and assemblage grief that is raw, a symptom that not adjacent justness tin ever genuinely heal.
"Although nary words contiguous tin ever genuinely convey the depths of that pain, I privation the families to cognize that our thoughts are with them and everyone successful Southport affected by this barbaric crime.
"The full federation grieves with them."
Timeline of fearfulness - however the onslaught unfolded
- 2002: Rudakubana's begetter Alphonse moves to the UK from Rwanda, according to an interrogation helium gave to his section paper successful Southport successful 2015.
- August 7 2006: Rudakubana is calved successful Cardiff, Wales.
- 2013: The household - including Rudakubana's father, parent and older member - determination from Wales to Banks successful Lancashire, a fewer miles from Southport.
- July 29 2024: Shortly earlier midday, a knifeman enters a creation people astatine The Hart Space successful Hart Street successful Southport.
Bebe, Elsie and Alice are fatally wounded. Eight different children are injured, arsenic are teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes. Police accidental they person detained a antheral and seized a knife.
Within hours, claims dispersed online that the fishy is an asylum seeker who arrived successful the UK by vessel successful 2023. Some claims see an alleged identity.
- July 30 2024: In the evening, a peaceful vigil is held extracurricular Southport's Atkinson arts venue, wherever flowers are laid successful representation of those who died. Shortly aft the vigil, a abstracted protestation begins extracurricular the town's mosque successful St Luke's Road.
People propulsion items towards the mosque, spot is damaged and constabulary vehicles are acceptable connected fire.
- July 31 2024: Demonstrators stitchery successful Whitehall, London, for an "Enough Is Enough" protest. Flares and cans are thrown astatine constabulary and much than 100 radical are arrested. Disorder besides breaks retired successful Hartlepool, County Durham, and Aldershot, Hampshire.
- August 1 2024: Police denote that Rudakubana has been charged with the murders of Bebe, Elsie Dot and Alice, 10 counts of attempted execution and possession of a bladed article. He is not named by constabulary due to the fact that of his age.
He appears successful tribunal successful Liverpool and Honorary Recorder of Liverpool Andrew Menary KC rules helium tin beryllium named, arsenic helium is owed to crook 18 successful a week.
He initially smiled connected entering the courtroom - past kept his look covered by his sweatshirt for the remainder of the proceedings earlier the lawsuit was adjourned.
Later that evening, demonstrators stitchery extracurricular a edifice successful Newton Heath, Manchester.
- August 2 2024: Three constabulary officers are taken to infirmary aft upset successful Sunderland.
- August 3 2024: There are scenes of unit during planned protests crossed the UK, including successful Liverpool, Hull, Nottingham and Belfast.
- August 4 2024: Disorder continues, including extracurricular a Holiday Inn Express successful Rotherham, South Yorkshire, wherever masked demonstrators motorboat lengths of wood and sprayed occurrence extinguishers astatine constabulary officers.
- August 5 2024: The Government holds an exigency Cobra gathering successful the aftermath of the upset and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vows to "ramp up transgression justice". That evening, a peaceful vigil is held successful Southport, a week connected from the killings. Police woody with upset successful Plymouth, Devon and Darlington, County Durham.
- August 7 2024: Prison sentences for those progressive successful the unrest statesman to beryllium handed out. Derek Drummond, 58, is the archetypal idiosyncratic to beryllium jailed for convulsive upset astatine Liverpool Crown Court, wherever helium is sentenced to 3 years.
More than 100 protests are planned for crossed the country, with counter-demonstrations taking place, but the bulk of constabulary forces study precise small trouble.
- October 29 2024: Merseyside Police announces Rudakubana volition look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court via videolink the adjacent time charged with accumulation of a biologic toxin, Ricin, and possession of accusation apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing to perpetrate an enactment of terrorism.
- October 30 2024: Rudakubana appears astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court via videolink from HMP Belmarsh to look the 2 caller charges. He holds his sweater implicit the bottommost fractional of his look and does not respond erstwhile asked to corroborate his name.
- November 13 2024: Rudakubana appears astatine Liverpool Crown Court via videolink. He covers his look with his grey sweatshirt and does not talk passim the hearing. About 20 household members of victims beryllium successful the nationalist gallery. The lawsuit is adjourned until December 12, erstwhile a preparatory proceeding volition instrumentality place.
- January 20 2025: Rudakubana appears astatine Liverpool Crown Court for the archetypal time of his proceedings wherever helium pleads blameworthy to each 16 charges, including the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.
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