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Eleanor Barlow

Home Secretary announces inquiry into how Rudakubana ‘came to be so dangerous’

Axel Rudakubana, 18, will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday (Merseyside Police/PA) - (PA Media)

The Home Secretary has announced that there will be a public inquiry into how Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana “came to be so dangerous” and why Prevent “failed to identify the terrible risk” he posed to others.

Yvette Cooper confirmed the 18-year-old had “contact with a range of different state agencies throughout his teenage years” before carrying out his “meticulously planned rampage” at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

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