Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a public inquiry to investigate the failure of multiple organizations, including Prevent, police, courts, youth justice, social services, and mental health services, to identify Axel Rudakubana's murderous intent before he committed a school massacre. Cooper wrote in The Sunday Times that the inquiry will examine 'missed opportunities' and ordered a review of Prevent referrals to better assess individuals 'obsessed with school massacres' and 'Islamist extremism'.
'So many organisations knew how violent Axel Rudakubana was,' the Home Secretary has said, announcing a public inquiry will be held to look at any “missed opportunities” to identify Rudakubana’s murderous intent Yvette Cooper, writing in The Sunday Times, argued the Prevent counter-terrorism programme, the police, courts, youth justice system, social services and mental health services had all failed to identify the killer as a danger.
She said she had ordered a “thorough review” of the Prevent referrals to better examine individuals “obsessed with school massacres” and also “Islamist extremism”. UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper “Where individuals are suspected to be neurodiverse, interventions should not stop because they are awaiting assessments, ignoring any risks they might pose,” she added.
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