Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy providing an update into the investigation into the murders of six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar, and the attempted murders of eight children and two adults in Southport on July 29, at Merseyside Police Headquarters, Liverpool. Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is accused of the knife-attack murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, has been charged with a terror offence and producing the deadly poison ricin which was found in his home, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said. Picture date: Tuesday October 29, 2024. - (PA Wire)
Merseyside’s police chief wanted to dispel misinformation in the immediate aftermath of the Southport murders by releasing information over Axel Rudakubana’s religion but was told not to by local crown prosecutors.
Chief constable Serena Kennedy told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee that she planned to include the detail in a press release and conference being held on July 31, when the force announced Rudakubana, then unnamed, had been charged.
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