PM to be grilled at PMQs after Southport state 'failings' exposed - live
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will face Tory leader Kemi Badenoch at PMQs with possible questions expected on the state of Britain's finances and questions over the Southport murders
State failings over Southport murders
State failings that failed to stop vile killer Axel Rudakubana from murdering three young girls in Southport could be raised during PMQs. Keir Starmer has vowed to hold a full inquiry into how the state failed to prevent Rudakubana from going on a murderous rampage.
Rudakubana was referred three times to Prevent, the Government's counter terrorism programme, between December 2019 and April 2021 when he only 13 and 14-years-old. This followed evidence he was "expressing interest in school shootings, in the London Bridge attack, the IRA, MI5 and the Middle East", she said. But his case was not referred upwards.
Between October 2019 and May 2022 Lancashire Police responded to five calls from his home address about his behaviour. He was referred repeatedly to the multi-agency safeguarding hub, had contact with children's social care and mental health services, MPs heard. He was convicted of a violent assault of a child at school and referred to youth offending team. He was also excluded from school.
Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty on Monday to murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July.
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