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Evening Standard
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Eleanor Barlow

Public inquiry will help community heal, says council leader

Sefton Council leader Marion Atkinson said a public inquiry will help with the ‘healing process’ for the community in Southport (Ryan Jenkinson/PA) - (PA Wire)

A public inquiry will help with the “healing process” for the community in Southport, the council leader has said.

Marion Atkinson, leader of Sefton Council, said the guilty pleas entered by Axel Rudakubana, 18, on Monday had come as a relief to a community that is “still hurting and shocked” by the deadly attack at a holiday club in the Merseyside town on July 29 last year.

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