Southport attack suspect in court over ricin and al Qaeda manual charges

Southport stabbings fishy Axel Rudakubana has appeared successful tribunal aft ricin and an al Qaeda grooming manual were allegedly recovered successful a hunt of his home.

The 18-year-old appeared astatine Westminster magistrates' tribunal by video nexus from Belmarsh situation charged with the accumulation of a biologic toxin and possession of accusation apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing to perpetrate an enactment of terrorism.

He has already been charged with 3 counts of execution implicit the fatal stabbing of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation people successful the Merseyside town.

Rudakubana, who was 17 astatine the clip of the onslaught connected 29 July, is besides charged with the attempted execution of 8 different children, on with teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes, and possession of a knife.

He is yet to participate pleas to the charges and is owed to look astatine Liverpool Crown Court connected 13 November for a plea and proceedings mentation hearing, with a provisional proceedings day acceptable for January adjacent year.

The caller charges were announced astatine a police briefing connected Tuesday, wherever officers said the latest alleged offences subordinate to grounds recovered successful searches of Rudakubana's location successful Banks, Lancashire, successful the days aft the attack.

The archetypal charge, nether the Biological Weapons Act 1974, states that helium produced a biologic toxin, namely ricin, connected oregon earlier 29 July.

The second, nether Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000, alleges helium possessed a PDF record entitled "Military Studies successful the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual".

Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said the wide stabbing has not been declared a violent incident.

It was followed by days of far-right riots up and down the UK aft misinformation online said the fishy was an asylum seeker who arrived successful the UK by boat, though it aboriginal emerged that Rudakubana was calved successful Cardiff, Wales.

Police person made much than 1,500 arrests implicit the disorder, portion prosecutors person brought much than 1,000 charges, and astir 400 radical person been jailed.

Tuesday's announcement prompted questions from Sir Keir Starmer's governmental rivals implicit whether accusation had been withheld from the public.

But Downing Street has insisted the timing of the latest charging announcement was purely a determination by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

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