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Axel Rudakubana: Anti-terror Prevent scheme missed chances to stop Southport killer, Government review finds

Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021

Evening Standard

Southport killer’s terror threat referral ‘should have been escalated’

The Home Secretary has said the Prevent learning review concluded Axel Rudakubana should have been referred to the next stage of the scheme.

Evening Standard

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana should have been seen as a terror threat, Home Office report shows

Axel Rudakubana should have been referred to the next stage of the Prevent scheme, says Home Secretary

The Independent UK

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After Southport, Westminster is floundering. It should look to Idris Elba

The Home Office has some good ideas, but a documentary on knife crime by the actor offers the template for a new approach, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Southport attacks: why the UK needs a unified approach to all violent attacks on the public

The conviction of Axel Rudakubana for the murder of three young girls in Southport has prompted many questions about how the UK handles violence without a clear ideological motive. This case has also shown up the confusion in this area, and made clear the need for a basic reframing of…

The Conversation

Southport attack: families not told for six months about killer’s Prevent referrals

Police knew Axel Rudakubana had been referred three times after his arrest last July

The Guardian - UK

Government not adopting expanded extremism definition, security minister says

Dan Jarvis said a leaked report on expanding the definition ‘does not and will not represent Government policy’.

The Independent UK

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Cooper blocks call for misogyny crimes to be treated as extremism

The home secretary said the government will continue to focus its anti-terror efforts on Islamist and far-right extremism

The Independent UK

Yvette Cooper to reject call to widen definition of extremism to include far left and 'manosphere'

The Home Secretary reportedly disagrees with the findings of the ‘rapid analytical sprint on extremism’ she commissioned following the summer riots

Evening Standard

Yvette Cooper to reject call to widen definition of extremism

The Home Secretary is said not to agree with the findings of the ‘rapid analytical sprint on extremism’ she commissioned following the summer riots.

The Independent UK

Misogyny and violence against women identified as gateways to extremism, leaked Home Office report says

An online subculture called the ‘manosphere’ was identified as a gateway to extremist views by the Home Office report

The Independent UK

UK extremism approach should be based on behaviours, not ideologies – report

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said in August she had directed the Home Office to conduct a ‘rapid analytical sprint on extremism’.

Evening Standard

Southport killer could ‘one day walk free amongst us’, says peer

Conservative peer Lord Davies called for a review on sentencing to allow whole-life orders to be given to under-18s.

Evening Standard

Government engaging with Southport families ahead of Prevent learning review

The Sunday Times reported at the weekend that the Prevent learning review will criticise counterterrorism officers.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Review into Axel Rudakubana will criticise Prevent for rejecting his case three times

Despite following policy, counter-terrorism scheme should have accepted more help to deal with the Southport killer

The Independent UK

Reeves says ‘no stone should be left unturned’ in Southport public inquiry

Chancellor tells Sky News social media companies have a moral duty to take down violent and harmful content as she says lessons need to be learned.

The Independent UK

Counter-terror police did not think Southport killer Axel Rudakubana would be radicalised, leaked report says

Despite three Prevent referrals for Axel Rudakubana, counterterrorism police did not believe he was a radicalisation risk, a report reveals

Evening Standard

Southport attacks: Police did not think Axel Rudakubana would be radicalised, leaked report shows

A public inquiry will be held to investigate if there were any ‘missed opportunities’ to stop Axel Rudakubana

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The Independent UK

Police did not think Axel Rudakubana would be radicalised, leaked report shows

The Home Secretary has already announced a public inquiry would be held to look at any ‘missed opportunities’.

The Guardian - UK

Prevent ‘not set up’ to stop killers like Rudakubana as UK terror threat changes

Southport attacker’s lack of coherent ideology meant the counter-terrorism scheme did not see him as potential security risk, exposing the urgent need for reform

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer rules out whole life sentence for Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

Though the Southport killer will likely die behind bars, critics have claimed the punishment is not severe enough

The Guardian - UK

Axel Rudakubana: from ‘unassuming’ schoolboy to Southport killer

How a chain of events apparently beginning at school five years ago led to the murder of three girls in horrific atrocity

The Independent UK

Prevent under review after failing to stop Southport killer, who else did they miss?

Sir David Amess’ killer and the Reading terror attacker were also known to the government scheme

Evening Standard

Southport killer had NHS mental health care for four years, trust says

Axel Rudakubana was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 52 years for murdering three young girls in Southport on July 29 last year.

The Independent UK

Badenoch warned that Prevent was ‘subject to heavy-handedness’ in 2015 report

The Tory leader signed off a report in 2015 that suggested Prevent could alienate communities, despite criticising Labour for having the concern in its 2019 manifesto

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