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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Ellie Ng

Punishment more important than extremism definition – Southport families’ lawyer

Sir Keir Starmer said 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana represented a new kind of threat, distinct from politically or ideologically motivated terrorism (Elizabeth Cook/PA) - (PA Wire)

The right punishment is more important than the definition of extremism, a lawyer for the families of the three girls killed in the Southport stabbings has said, with the Home Secretary set to reject advice to widen the scope of the word.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, were murdered at a Taylor Swift dance event at a centre in the Merseyside town last summer by Axel Rudakubana, who was jailed for life with a minimum of 52 years.

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