A Home Office review has uncovered serious failings in how counter-terrorism police handled the case of Axel Rudakubana before he went on to murder three children in a knife attack. The review found that Rudakubana's growing obsession with mass violence was not adequately addressed despite multiple referrals to the government's counterterrorism programme, Prevent.
Read more:. Read more:. LISTEN:A Home Office review has uncovered serious failings in the counter-terrorism police's handling of Axel Rudakubana .
The Prevent scheme, part of the UK's counterterrorism strategy, aims to stop people from being drawn into terrorism. Authorities may have missed several attempts to stop Rudakubana before he murdered three children and attempted to murder eight other youngsters and two adults in Blackpool last summer when he was aged just 17Read More 'We've been denied the truth': Farage accuses Starmer of a Southport cover-up Teachers at The Range High School in Formby reported that he had shown an unusual interest in school shootings and mass violence, including disturbing news articles about attacks in the US.
'He was looking at news articles about mass shootings during IT class and trying to speak to his teacher about it. It was odd behaviour for a child so young. Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Chilling moment Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana is restrained by pupils in classroom They decided that while he had vulnerabilities, these were being addressed by other services, such as social care and mental health professionals.
Further referrals were made in 2021, but each time, Rudakubana's obsession with violent events was downplayed. Read More How Axel Rudakubana was 'planning UK's first high school massacre' but was stopped by his dad In 2023, a significant increase in referrals related to mass shootings and extremist material online was reported, with many referrals involving young people whose ideologies were unclear but who showed a dangerous fixation on violence.
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