The knife attack on a dance class of children in Southport has left the country horrified. We do not yet know much about what happened, but a male aged 17 has been charged with the murder of three girls and ten counts of attempted murder.
Misinformation, distributed via social media, has been linked to serious violence after the attacks.
An attack of this kind is extremely rare. We know very little about the alleged attacker, except his age and name, and that the prosecution said in court that he had an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. At this stage it would not be helpful to generalise or try to identify conclusions but the police are not treating this as a terrorism related incident.
