Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven
Keir Starmer has said the UK faces a new threat of terrorism - and revealed why key details about Southport killer Axel Rudakubana were not revealed in the summer.
Sir Keir also said that Britain faces a new threat of terrorism from “extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms” - and that the state's failures in the case 'leaps off the page'. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now And Sir Keir had previously stated in the press conference: “Throughout this case, up to this point, we have only been focussed on justice.
He added: “If the law needs to change to recognise this new and dangerous threat, then we will change it and quickly, and we will also review our entire counter-extremist system to make sure we have what we need to defeat it.” He said that while some people may put the tragedy down to immigration or funding cuts, “neither tells us anything like the full story or explains this case properly”.
“It is a new threat, it’s not what we would have usually thought of as terrorism when definitions were drawn up, when guidelines were put in place, when the framework was put in place and we have to recognise that here today.” “But that is my concern, that is my thinking that this is a new threat – individualised extreme violence, obsessive, often following online viewing of material from all sorts of different sources.
'Line in the sand' Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced an inquiry into the case on Monday evening, saying the country needed “independent answers” on Prevent and other agencies’ contact with the “extremely violent” Rudakubana and “how he came to be so dangerous”.
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