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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects

Bebe King
Bebe King, one of the three children killed in a knife attack at a dance class in Southport in 2024. Photograph: Merseyside police/PA Media

The family of Bebe King, one of the three girls killed in the Southport attack last year, have urged ministers to reconsider their support for disclosing the ethnicity of serious crime suspects, saying this information is “completely irrelevant” and that “the propensity to commit crime happens in any ethnicity, nationality or race”.

Bebe was six when she was murdered by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, a Welsh-born black Briton from a Christian family who had lived in the local area for a number of years.

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