This combination of file pictures created on July 30, 2024 shows the Southport victims. (Image: MERSEYSIDE POLICE/AFP via Getty)
Axel Rudakubana was referred to counter-terrorism police specialists three times before he carried out a knife rampage in Southport last year.
The 18-year-old accused of killing three girls in a “meticulously planned rampage” at a dance class in Southport has pleaded guilty to the attack on the first day of his trial.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died following the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed class in The Hart Space on a small business park in the seaside town shortly before midday on July 29.
The reported that it had seen official documentation that Rudakubana was referred to Prevent four times ahead of the day of the attack.
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