Taxi driver who dropped off Southport attacker ‘waited 50 minutes’ to call 999

Chairman Sir Adrian Fulford sitting inside the hearing room at Liverpool Town Hall, (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

The taxi driver who drove Axel Rudakubana to the scene of the Southport attack would have been expected “morally” to make an earlier call to emergency services, a senior investigator has said.

The Southport Inquiry heard driver Gary Poland, who picked Rudakubana up from his home in Banks, Lancashire, on July 29 last year, waited 50 minutes before calling 999, despite hearing children scream and seeing them fleeing the building in his rearview mirror as he drove away.