Police “could not arrest” the Southport killer before he carried out his attack because of a gap in the law, the UK’s terror watchdog has said, as he recommended the creation of a new offence to target loners planning mass killings.
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said that the case of Axel Rudakubana was “horrifying” in that charges could not be brought against the then 17-year-old when he was known to be making plans for an attack.
