Axel Rudakubana, 18, is facing two further charges, including one under the terrorism act.
Axel Rudakubana - pictured in a court drawing from August - is due to appear in court again on Wednesday
It comes after the two candidates for the Conservative leadership said the government had questions to answer about the new charges.is facing two further charges,On Tuesday he was charged with production of a biological toxin contrary to Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974. The teenager had already been charged with the murders of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar who died at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on 29 July.
The teenager had been due in court in Liverpool for a pre-trial preparation hearing last Friday, 25 October. Meanwhile Kemi Badenoch has suggested there are "serious questions to be asked of the police, the CPS and also of Keir Starmer’s response".The police said it is "certainly not the case" that they have been keeping things from the public. It would be highly unusual for them to release details of a live police investigation.
Possessing a document that could be useful in preparing an act of terrorism is an entirely separate offence.
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