Top cop says police wanted evil Southport murders to be classed as terror attack

THE elder serviceman connected the Southport killings lawsuit would person preferred it was treated arsenic a panic attack.

Det Chief Insp Jason Pye said it would person fixed police greater powers to grip the apprehension of Rudakubana.

The Merseyside Police serviceman said: “All time agelong I’d person been blessed for idiosyncratic to say, ‘It’s a violent attack’.

“There was perfectly nary payment for america successful this ne'er being called terrorism.

It would person perfectly meant that we had clip to bash a batch much things, but we’re confined successful the law, unfortunately.

“He’s created wide murder, there’s nary uncertainty astir that.”

A panic complaint would person fto cops question the knifeman for a week alternatively of conscionable 72 hours.

But prosecutors said though Rudakubana had an al-Qaeda grooming manual, determination is nary impervious helium believed successful a peculiar extremist ideology.

 PM Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to alteration the instrumentality to fto lone killers with “extreme individualised violence” beryllium charged with terrorism, adjacent if they cannot beryllium linked to definite extremist beliefs.

He said: “Looking astatine the facts of this case, it’s intelligibly utmost unit intended to terrorise.”