Southport stabbing murders were ‘mercilessly calculated’ and among the ‘most egregious’ in UK history, chairman tells opening of public inquiry

Today, the president of the public investigation said that the young man who killed three young girls at Southport was responsible for one of the most terrible crimes in the history of England.

Sir Adrian Fulford, who opened the hearing last July, was almost unimaginable when Axel Rudakubana went to the ramp at a Taylor Swift -themed dance club, but still the cruelly calculated ‘killing madness.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, six -year -old Bebe King and seven -year -old Elsie Dot Stancombe died in the attack, which left eight children who could not be named for legal reasons, and class instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes were seriously injured.

Sir Adrian said that they and 16 children in the club were also subjected to important psychological trauma.

Rudakubana, who was 17 years old at that time, was sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment, one of the highest minimum terms in the record – a period of at least 52 years after alleged that he was guilty of murders and in January.

Soon, former Vice President of the Court of Appeal, Sir Adrian, was appointed by the Interior Minister Yette Cooper to carry out a ‘judicial investigation’ on July 29th.

He said that the investigation was ‘really critical’ for Rudakubana’s victims ‘victims’ victims and suggestions to prevent something similar in the future.

The hearing will examine that many agencies, including the police, courts, NHS and social services, cannot determine the risk that Rudakubana contacted. He will also investigate whether the attack is prevented.

Sir Adrian Fulford, the head of the public investigation held at Liverpool Town Hall

A Court of Court of Axel Rudakubana, who appeared through Videolink in Liverpool Crown Court during the hearing

Between December 2019 and April 2021, three separate referrals were made about the behavior of Rudakubana about the fight against terrorism and six separate calls to the police.

A review of the prevention guidance published in February found that it pose enough risk to keep their cases active, but they focused very on the lack of different ideology and closed early.

The investigation will result from the interviews with witnesses and the announcement of 15 organizations, including MI5, Anti -Terror Policing, NHS England and Mersexide police.

Sir Adrian ‘for the benefit of the victims and their families’ Rudakubana will not be named during the hearings, instead ‘perpetrators’ or initials will be called ard, he said.

He also read the names of the 23 passwords – letters or numbers – which the three died girls and the investigation used for survivors, but protected anonymously.

As part of a moving tribute, those who lived in the investigation room at the Liverpool Town Hall, where the hearing was held, were asked to rely on silence for a minute to remember Alice, Elsie and Bebe.

Sir The perpetrator is responsible for one of the most terrible crimes in the history of our country, S said Sir Adrian.

‘Whatever, ordinary language cannot reflect the magnitude of what he did on July 29 last year.

None of the most powerful adjectives are even enough. There’s not enough words to describe what’s happening, and I can’t try it, and then I can’t find them.

‘Instead, I observe that crimes impose the most severe burdens on our society to quickly investigate how AR is possible to cause such destruction; To analyze the decisions taken or not taken by more than one person and organization, considering the worsening and deeply disturbing behaviors; Defining without fear or supporting all relevant failures; And to make comprehensive, logical and accessible suggestions to ensure that we have the best chance to intervene and prevent other people to treat others in such a cruel and inhuman way. ‘

Sir Adrian served as a former Supreme Judge and as a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He was also the Vice President of the Court of Appeal (Penalty Department) until 2019.

The investigation examines how 18 -year -old Rudakubana is known by many agencies, including police, courts, social services and NHS.

Bebe King, six, was one of the three girls killed in Taylor Dance Workshop last year

Seven -year -old Elsie Dot Stancombe was also at the event held at Hart Space in Southport

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, with the cardboard cut of the pop hero before the deadly attack

Sir Adrian, the first stage of the investigation expected to last until the end of the year Rudakubana’ya, relations with the relevant agencies and information sharing between them, he said.

In addition, how well the risk of the risk is handled, to stop it to stop the ‘kidnapped opportunities’ will also look at decisions taken or not.

The chairman of the investigation said that there were some ‘undisputed but disturbing facts about those involved:

• Rudakubana was fired from Range High School in Formby, but on December 11, 2019, he managed to return to another student with a hockey stick. He was found with a knife and overheard, saying he aimed to kill another student during the same incident.
• He was directed to the Fighter three times on December 5, 2019, 1 February 2021 and 26 April 2021, after the school shooting was seen as the Libyan military dictator Colonel Gaddafi and the terrorist attack on the London Bridge terrorist attack.
• It was reported that he was missing on March 17, 2022 and then stopped on a bus by an armed police with a knife. Sir Adrian said Rudakubana wanted to stab someone during this incident.
• One ‘assassination of poisons and cold steel’ and the other ‘against the tyrants in Jihad Military Research: Al-Qaeda Training Guide’ explosives, war and knives, including materials related to online books, research articles, information brochures and teaching guides had accessed. This guide was twice, on August 30, 2021 and then again on September 4, 2021.
• Using a special VPN online, a 20 cm chef managed to order and buy a knife.
• A week before the attack, he armed herself with a knife and tried to return to high school on the day the school left for summer holidays. Just before the attack, he watched a video of the bishop Mari Mari Emmanuel and five other people in Australia.
• For more than two years, between January 2022 and July last year, a bow and arrow, two types of machete, two large knives, a sledgehammer, molotov cocktail explosives and other materials to make fatal toxin risin managed to make materials.

Sir Adrian said that when these factors were handled together, the attack was’ far from an unpredictable disaster ‘, and instead, Rudakubana was a known foresight for the knife crime’ until July last year and that ‘a very serious and significant risk of violence’ constitutes a very serious and significant risk of violence.

“Also, the ability to access on the internet, to order online knife at a young age and then leave the house without control, wholesale and generally intervene, or indeed fail at all, ‘he added.

Authority, the investigation, including the functioning of the prevention program ‘multi -agency risk transport’ is sufficient to think whether or not to identify, monitor and control such serious crimes should determine whether there are better, more effective systems, he said.

Immediately after the attack in July last year, Mersexide, Hart Street Southport Police

When he was a young child, Rudakubana appeared in an ad for BBC as Doctor Who.

Sir Adrian added: ‘We must understand what is going wrong, and then we must define and apply the most effective measures to ensure that it is not as much as possible, as much as possible.

‘As a society, we can define ourselves and especially the most vulnerable from such horrors when they face individuals who are known to think about the actions of such immorality and that no solution is perfect.

‘This must quickly take over quickly to respond to victims and their families and to determine all the changes that need to be made urgently.’

Sir Adrian, Prime Minister Keir Starmer before Southport ‘should be a line in the sand’ and the investigation of the investigation ‘nothing will be out of the table’ he said.

The President said that the hearings would not turn into a paper exercise on the cracks’, but it was determined that it would act as a ‘real engine for change’.

Rachael Wong, director of Bond Turner, representing the three -year -old family, said that they would do their best to help Sir Adrian to reach the ‘truth’.

Uz We know that nothing that the investigation has revealed or later proposed will change the unimaginable damage felt by Elce, Alice and Bebe families, but now we have responsibility to be sure that such a thing has never happened again, ” he said.

‘We will do our best to help the chair through the investigation and reveal the truth.

‘Real change can be realized through an intense public examination.’

In the second stage, the President added that children will look at the wider ‘disturbing tendency’ of extreme violence and look at what can be done to reverse it.

Following the murders, widespread rebellion and civil unrest is not examined by the investigation.