A public inquiry into the Southport knife attack at a Taylor Swift themed children’s dance class will investigate failings which led to “one of the most egregious crimes” in UK history, the chairman has said.
Opening the hearing at Liverpool Town Hall on Tuesday, former Court of Appeal judge Sir Adrian Fulford described Axel Rudakubana’s crimes as an “unimaginable but nonetheless mercilessly calculated knife attack” which claimed the lives of three children and left eight more girls and two adults wounded.
