Southport killer Axel Rudakubana admitted carrying a knife 10 times
Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana admitted carrying a knife on 10 occasions but was still able to buy the blades on Amazon, the home secretary said.
Yvette Cooper said several agencies failed to determine the danger the teenager posed because he had indulged in extreme violence in the years before the attack.
Rudacubana admitted Monday to killing six-year-old Babe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar last July . He will be sentenced on Thursday.
Earlier, the Prime Minister warned ‘New dangerous threats’ The voices from individuals obsessed with violence come after a public inquiry was announced into the missed opportunity to stop Ruda Kubana.
Cooper told the House of Commons it was “a complete disgrace” that he could “easily order a knife on Amazon” at the age of 17, despite his previous conviction for a violent crime against another child at school.
It was also revealed that between 2019 and 2021, Ruda Kubana was mentioned in the anti-extremism program Prevent on three different occasions.
Cooper told the House of Commons that a review of the program found that Prevent failed to label Ruda Kubana as a serious threat because he had not shown a commitment to a single radical ideology.
Given Rudacubana’s interest in extreme violence, she said: “People place too much emphasis on the lack of ideology.”
Cooper said it was “unbearable to think that more could and should have been done” to stop him and that “the action against him was too weak”.
The Home Secretary said the public inquiry would be given all the powers it needs to assess whether red flags had been missed. Areas of interest may include:
- Between October 2019 and May 2022, Lancashire Police received five calls from Rudakubana’s home address expressing concerns about his behavior
- Multiple referrals to safeguarding services, children’s social care and youth mental health services
- Rudakubana was referred to the Youth Offending Team after being convicted of violent crime
- Childline referred concerns to local authorities after Rudacubana made calls to Childline as a teenager in which he revealed he planned to bring a knife to school due to racial bullying.
Speaking in Downing Street earlier on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer said failings by public agencies in the lead-up to the Southport murders “jumped off the page” and Ruda Kubana was deemed not to have met the threshold for intervention. “Obviously wrong.” Prevention Program.
The crime situation in Rudakubana has sparked wider scrutiny of what the government says is a growing threat from young people interested in extreme violence.
Cooper told the Commons that 162 people were referred to the Center for Prevention last year over concerns related to school massacres, which she described as “the wider challenge of rising youth violence and extremism”.
She added that the number of children under investigation for involvement in terrorism had tripled in three years.
The government said tech companies must remove extremist material Ruda Kubana accessed online.
Cooper said they “should not be profiting from hosting content that “puts children’s lives at risk.”
