This is the chilling moment Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana had to be restrained by fellow pupils as he launched an attack in a classroom at his former high school before he was later expelled.
Follow MailOnline's live blog for. LISTEN: Keir Starmer dismissed claims of a Southport 'cover-up' today as he insisted there will be a full inquiry into how the state failed to stop the killer going on the rampage.
However, he flatly rejected allegations of a 'cover-up' of terrorist links in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity in July - which was followed by a wave of rioting across the country. Sir Keir said he was under 'no illusions' that the lack of 'trust' will continue until the state is 'honest' about problems and 'roots them out'.
The PM told a press conference in Downing Street that people were right to 'demand answers' over 'failings' in the case of Axel Rudakubana 'That threat, of course, remains but now alongside that we also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom accessing all manner of material online – desperate for notoriety, sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups, but fixated on that extreme violence, seemingly for its own sake,' Sir Keir said.
Sir Keir continued: 'I do think it's new. You've seen versions of it in America with some of the mass shootings in schools. 'That is not just the laws on terrorism, the framework on terrorism, it's also the laws on what we can access online. But despite this and contact with other state agencies, the authorities failed to stop the attack which claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.
'So before I turn to the questions that must now be answered for the families and the nation, I first want to recognise their unimaginable grief, because I know the whole country grieves for them.Laying out the new danger the country faces, Sir Keir said: 'In the past, the predominant threat was highly organised groups with clear political intent. Groups like Al-Qaeda.
'That is what we've got to change. That is the urgent question that has to be addressed and it's one that has to be addressed before the conclusion of the inquiry and it's why we've already done the learning from the Prevent mistakes. 'That is not just the laws on terrorism, the framework on terrorism, it's also the laws on what we can access online.
Following Rudakubana's guilty pleas, Sir Keir described the 18-year-old as 'vile and sick', and said there were 'grave questions to answer' on how the state 'failed' to protect the three girls. He is also understood to have possessed numerous other documents on violent subjects, including A Concise History Of Nazi Germany, The Myth Of The Remote Controlled Car Bomb and Amerindian Torture And Cultural Violence.
Welcoming the announcement of a public inquiry, he said: 'We also need to know who in Government knew what and when, as well as why the authorities may have withheld some information from the public.'
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