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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

UK may need new scheme to detect people obsessed with violence, report to say

Court drawing of Axel Rudakubana at his trial
Axel Rudakubana: the report was ordered after it was revealed that he was referred to Prevent three times. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

A new scheme to detect people who are obsessed with violence before they kill, such as the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana, should be considered by the government, an official report will say.

The report into Prevent, the controversial programme intended to stop people from becoming terrorists, will also find repeated “failings” in the case of the man who went on to assassinate the MP Sir David Amess, the Guardian understands.

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