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Eleanor Barlow

Head of Southport attacker’s former school tells inquiry of ‘sense of dread’

Three girls were killed in Southport (James Speakman/PA) - (PA Archive)

The head teacher of the Southport attacker’s former school has told a public inquiry she had a “visceral sense of dread” that he would do something.

Joanne Hodson, head of The Acorns School in Ormskirk, which Axel Rudakubana attended after he was excluded from the Range High School, said she felt like he was “building up to something”.

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