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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
August Graham

The false claim that Southport trial was deliberately timed for Trump inauguration

Axel Rudakubana was reported to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021 but the Home Office established each referral ‘should not have been closed’, Ms Cooper said (Elizabeth Cook/PA) - (PA Wire)

A former chairman of the Conservative Party has made the bizarre claims that the beginning of Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana’s trial was scheduled on the same day as Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration as “a calculated and cynical move by the Labour Government to ‘bury bad news’ behind international headlines”.

The claim echoes other social media posts over recent months which make various claims about the timing of both events on the same day.

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