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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Eleanor Barlow

Removing stabbing video from X would be ‘overreach’, Southport Inquiry told

Chairman Sir Adrian Fulford sitting inside the hearing room (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

A social media boss has said it would be “tyrannical overreach” to remove a video of a “horrific” stabbing which was watched by Axel Rudakubana on the morning of the Southport attack.

Rudakubana, then aged  17, searched social media site X for a video of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel six minutes before he left home on July 29 last year.

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