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Officers told Axel Rudakubana’s mother to keep knives out of son’s reach after he was found carrying blade on bus

Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to a minimum 52 years in jail for the killing of three young girls in Southport in a stabbing attack in 2024. After Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a public inquiry, saying the state “failed in its duty” to…

Police were called six times over Axel Rudakubana and he was referred to Prevent three times

Police were repeatedly called and teachers raised fears over teen researching terror attack on school computer in a string of missed opportunities to halt killer

CCTV shown of Axel Rudakubana’s attack at dance studio in July 2024, as sentencing hearing told details of girls’ injuries

Rudakubana cowardly refused to come into the dock at Liverpool Crown Court when he was being sentenced by the judge

Katie Amess repeated her calls for an inquiry into the Prevent programme that failed to stop her father’s killer or Axel Rudakubana.

Axel Rudakubana’s case isn’t just about how his crime is defined – but the failures of a hollowed-out social care and justice system, says author Samira Shackle

A UK judge is due on Thursday to sentence a teenager who brutally murdered three young girls in a stabbing spree last year that sparked the country's worst riots in over a decade.

Keir Starmer says rise in prevalence of solitary attackers after Southport murders should be taken into account

Governments have found themselves ill-equipped to deal with the emergent terror threat from young men accessing extreme content online