Hero police officer charged in to arrest Southport killer during knife rampage with just a baton despite being warned ‘You need a f****** gun mate’, inquiry hears

A police sergeant paused only six seconds with a baton armed with a gun with only one baton with a truncheon.
SGT Greg Gillespie was warned by a public member who came to child aid before entering.
‘It took ten minutes for the officer to reach the Hart Space Dance Studio after he was told that he was a child with a knife that stabbed many people and had a lot of losses.
Nine, six -year -old Bebe King and seven -year -old Elsie Stancombe was killed by Axel Rudakubana, who was imprisoned for at least 52 years in the Taylor Swift themed class on July 29 last year.
Two years ago, he had begun to accumulate weapons and materials to make a deadly poison Ricin, an investigation into the attack today.
SGT Gillespie, who was aiming to go to the scene, reached 11.56 o’clock while a quick response passed the medical officer.
He parked on Hart Street, where images from the Bodyworn camera showed that the images were marked by a few parents who came to collect their children and did not know whether they were running away.
Senior Investigation Officer Det Chief Inspector Jason Pye said to the investigation: ‘He comes out of his car. He notices a child on the left.
After stabbing last summer, Hart Street, Police and Forensic Teams at Southport
Six -year -old Bebe King, seven -year -old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine -year -old Alice da Silva Aguiar, was killed in brutality on 29 July 2024
(From left to right) Hero officials PC Luke Holden, PCSO Tim Parry and SGT Greg Gillespie, all Southport knife attacker Axel Rudakubana confronted and then honored for their courage
“It assumes that this child does not breathe because the two members of the people focus on him.
‘He informed them that he was a quick medical officer and told them to shake the first medical officer.’
The window cleaner, Joel Verite, was dragged back to the center by Rudakubana and carried the child called C1 from outside the building.
He used his T -shirt to bleed and survived the attack.
Mr. Verite asked the police officer to follow him to the parking lot.
SGT Gillespie stopped at the entrance of the Hart area as they updated the control room on the radio: ‘We are going to detain him’.
Di DCi Pye said to the investigation.
“ At this point SGT Gillespie, “Why? What?”
Axel Rudakubana except the Hart Space Dance Studio in Southport before starting the attack that killed three young girls
The same knife used in the attack on Hart Space by Rudakubana in Southport last July
And for the first time he says he has a knife.
‘He warned him not to get in by Joel because he had a knife and he would need more than a baton.’
The investigation heard the exact words: ‘AF ****** You need a friend of arms, that’s nothing.’
SGT Gillespie asked an officer equipped with a task on the radio, just as PC Luke Holden and PCSO Timothy Parry came.
DCI Pye said the investigation: ‘Greg asked, is it ready to go in? And they enter with very little delay. ‘
Two men who left Mr. Parry to protect the door entered the Hart area at 11.57 hours after the other two officers arrived.
Nicholas Moss Kc said: ‘There was no significant pause there to formulate some kind of complex plan. They go in very quickly. ‘
The investigation said that firearms were called to the scene, but the two officers did not expect them.
Axel Rudakubana’s court drawn image on 18 December 2024
When they walked in, they found Rudakubana in landing and shouted at him to drop the knife he had made before Pcso Parry helped help.
The investigation took Rudakubana to the Hart area of a Minicab driver named Gary Poland, but the police had moved away from searching.
The children left the building and ran next to the taxi and saw it in the back Dashcam and said, ‘You can hear the children screaming’.
Mr. Poland looked at the rearview mirror, but he still set out, added.
The driver did not call the police until 12.36 at 50 minutes after the attack: ‘The young man who did everything took him.
“ I just shook my heart as if I didn’t know what happened. ‘
He said that he had taken and added to the call operator: ‘He seemed very strange as he planned.
“ I was just about to go and then I heard that she screamed, screamed properly, and there were young people who went down the steps and then I shot. ‘
Mr. Moss asked: ‘Did you expect a people who acted in a responsible way to call 999 as soon as they arrived in a security place where it was safe to make this call?’
DCI Pye replied: ‘I want to think morally that a call will be made.
“ There was enough evidence that he knew what happened. You expect a call to come. ‘
The investigation was told that he had accessed a document called ‘Kamikaze Death Poetry’ within minutes before starting to start the killer’s attack.
He had cleaned his scanning history, but there was nothing relevant when he was rescued.
However, he used a tablet device to download a number of PDF documents.
He couldn’t read them all when he had, but the investigation was given a list of titles.
It contained an excerpt from the ‘Kamikaze Death Poetry’ and others who were interested in historical rebellions and rebellions.
Today, the investigation also heard the details of how Rudakubana has ordered the scale, alcohol, filter paper, a tapered bottle, measuring vessel and security glasses through January 2022 on January 2022.
Later, he bought 150 Indian beans and mortar and mortar in the future mass killer in the future.
He used the items to grind the beans and follow the instructions he downloaded in a document called Al-Qaeda Guide on the Internet to produce highly toxic poison Ricin.
Axel Rudakubana had enough raw materials to kill approximately 13,000 people after revealing a lunch box refined by the police home laboratory and Ricin.
A mortar and mortar still carried the traces of his deadly mission
The killer seemed to be sleeping in the messy house of his house.
Rudakubana used his own debit to buy items, but sent them to a pick-up point in his father’s next door and a local cooperative.
After the attack, they made a box in the bedroom.
Inquiry, Indian beans can be swallowed and produce five deadly doses, or more purified by inhalation by inhalation between 2.547 or 12,690.
In March 2022, he ordered a traditional Mongolian bow and arrows from the upper archery in the Amazon in a black grip in his room.
He also ordered brown glass beer bottles from Amazon with swing stopper and 5 liter plastic Jerrycan.
These were to be delivered to Al Rad – his father Alphonse – Southport in the family house in the banks near the banks.
They found matches banded in a series of bottles to prepare for molotov cocktails in the living room.
He comes after he said that the investigation knew that Rudakubana’s parents had ordered a knife in an illegal way before the ‘disgusting’ attack.
Delivery boxes filled his house with the murderer’s family.
A spooky hunting arrows were rescued from the arsenal of young people
Today, on July 22 last year, a week before the attack, then 17 -year -old Rudakubana’nın, despite the lack of a car or driver’s license heard that his father was trying to get gas for him.
In May 2022, Rudakubana made Crossows purchasing from a company called tactical archery, asking what kind of package will come and confirm how it would be over 18 years old.
Rudakubana, which was refered to as AR during the investigation, ordered three machetes caught by their family.
MOSS, “ `Although these elements are not sold below 18 years of age, Ar managed to order and delivered to the home address of not less than three, ” he said.
The first was the 22 -inch ‘Bushcraft Survival’ palace with a sharpening stone that Rudakubana used to use the license of Alice, born in 1992.
DPD was delivered to Rudakubana’s father by DPD and found on a wardrobe in the parents’ bedroom in the original packaging.
On October 4, 2023, Bedfordshire was ordered from Leighton Buzzard -based knife warehouse.
Rudakubana was not opened after being guilty and convicted, and a policeman was still found in a safe storage unit in his original gray packaging.
MOSS, “ `in one view, ” Rudakubana’nın may have been captured by the parents, because it was not opened, Moss said Moss.
This time Rudakubana used another real driver’s license on behalf of an old man named Samuel from Uxbridge and was delivered by the Royal Mail.
A third machete was delivered on October 14, 2023 using ‘Samuel’ driver’s license.
Mr Moss said: ‘This was in the hands of AR because he was found with bums and arrows in a black Holdall by the bunk beds in his room.
“ `Two times unsuccessful tried to take his hands on the machete and succeeded for the third time because it was delivered by age verification. ‘
The investigation at the Liverpool Town Hall is investigating that various agencies, including the police, courts, NHS and social services, can not determine the risk of contact with Rudakubana.
They will also investigate whether the attack can be prevented.
The court was under the care of mental health services for several years before the persecution of Rudakubana, but was discharged only six days before it did.
The investigation continues.




