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Yvette Cooper has launched a two-phase statutory public inquiry into the Southport murders. Ms Cooper mentioned the primary part would “thoroughly investigate” the circumstances round Axel Rudakubana’s assault on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class through which he killed Elsie Stancombe, seven, six-year-old Bebe King and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar in July 2024.

The first part can have explicit deal with points round policing, the felony justice system and the a number of businesses concerned with Rudakubana, following the revelation he had been referred to the Government’s Prevent scheme on three events however the circumstances have been closed.

Home Office paperwork printed on Monday reveal MI5, counter-terrorism police, Merseyside Police, NHS England, Lancashire County Council and the Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Education will all be questioned.

The second part will look at the broader problem of younger folks being drawn into excessive violence.

Ms Cooper confirmed {the teenager} was referred to the Government’s counterterrorism scheme – Prevent – thrice.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper mentioned: “The brutal murder of three young girls: Bebe, Elsie and Alice in Southport was an unimaginable tragedy – we owe it to their families, and all those affected on that terrible day to quickly understand what went wrong, answer difficult questions and do everything in our power to prevent something like this from happening again.

“The Southport Inquiry will provide insights into any failings that allowed a young man with a previous history of violence, to commit this horrendous attack.

“Sir Adrian Fulford will bring a wealth of legal and criminal justice expertise to this role, and I am pleased he has agreed to chair the Inquiry.”

Rudakubana appeared up info on the London bombings, the IRA, MI5, the warfare in Gaza, faculty massacres, the Libya battle and dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a evaluate into the Government’s counter-terrorism Prevent programme discovered.

But the evaluate confirmed officers didn’t consider he was a terrorist risk.

Officers have been mistaken to not escalate his case as a possible terror risk, as there was “sufficient concern” about his excessive views and obsession with violence, the scathing report mentioned.

A surprising part of the evaluate discovered: “AMR [Axel Rudakubana] has been researching school shootings, has been talking about stabbing people and that the terrorist attack on the MEN was a good thing. At this stage it is not clear if he has an ideology.”

The probe discovered sufficient proof for Prevent officers to refer Rudakubana to the following stage of the scheme, Channel, which goals to divert people from radicalisation.