Villain Axel Rudakubana 'left free to massacre three girls' | United Kingdom

Villain Axel Rudakubana was left free to massacre three innocent young girls, despite spending years on the radar of police, anti-extremist authorities and several other public agencies.

Despite repeated concerns raised about the twisted teen’s sickening obsession with extreme violence, intervention was never limited.

Mr Prime Minister Keir Starmer admitted that “the state had failed” in launching a public inquiry into the repeatedly missed opportunities to stop Rudakubana’s deadly descent.

The warnings were first issued when he was an 11-year-old year 9 student at Range High School in Formby, Merseyside. Having appeared in a BBC In the Children In Need campaign video as Dr Who, he told teachers about his dreams of becoming a musical theater star, but regular outbursts of anger towards his classmates seemed at odds with his creative aspirations.

His inner fury grew as he entered puberty, his classmates remembering him as “the class weirdo”, obsessed with evil figures such as Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan.

He was excluded from Range High School in October 2019 when he brought a knife to school. It would later emerge that he told the Childline call center that he planned to take a knife to school after being subjected to racist bullying.

Returning to school two months later, he attacked another child with a hockey stick before being restrained by staff and expelled.

Local health workers determined he had autism spectrum disorder and he was subsequently enrolled in two other schools for children with special needs: The Acorns School and Presfield High School & Specialist College.

He only attended the latter’s sixth form for a few days, spending much of his time at home binging on online violence.

Staff made home visits but frequently asked police to accompany teachers due to concerns about his violent behavior.

The Lancashire Child Safeguarding Partnership said Rudakubana had failed to “reintegrate” into education following his exclusion from Range High School, a situation “exacerbated by the pandemic”.

Around the same time, it was noted that Rudakubana was experiencing “anxiety that prevented him from leaving his home.”

Having left his studies, several local agencies had contact at various levels with Rudakubana and he was convicted of assault and referred to the juvenile justice service after the incident where he brought a knife into the school.

He carried out rehabilitation activities with young offenders who pleaded guilty to a first offense.

However, Lancashire Police had “several” further interactions with the teenager between October 2019 and May 2022 – including four calls from his home regarding concerns about his behavior.

Each time, officers contacted MASH, a local grouping of agencies responsible for monitoring vulnerable people in the area.

Children’s Social Services carried out an initial assessment in Rudakubana, which found that social work support was not necessary. It recommends “early help,” which covers less intensive forms of intervention.

Contact was made with Rudakubana and his family and they were given advice on his “emotional wellbeing and behaviours”.

He was also seen by local mental health services but “stopped engaging” in February 2023, when the would-be killer was 16 years old.

A spokesperson representing local agencies said its “participation and engagement has remained a challenge” throughout this period, despite repeated efforts by professionals to get involved.

An independent study to determine whether additional steps could have been taken to intervene is currently underway.

Rudakubana first came to the attention of the government’s anti-extremism program Prevent because he expressed interest in school shootings, the London Bridge attack, the IRA, MI5 and the Middle East .

He was then referred to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021, but concerns never increased, meaning he was not subject to increased monitoring.

An urgent Prevent review carried out over the summer found this was because, although there was evidence of his obsession with violence, he did not appear to fit the mold of a potential extremist.

There was no sign of allegiance to any one cause – which is why, although he pleaded guilty to downloading a terrorist manual, his case was never treated as a terrorism investigation.

His case has raised concerns about whether Prevent is equipped to identify dangerous people who don’t fit the traditional view of what constitutes an extremist.

The urgent review found that, given Rudakubana’s age and complex needs, his case should have been escalated. He concluded that Prevent placed too much emphasis on its apparent lack of adherence to a single radical ideology.

When police searched his home, they found a cache of weapons, including a machete, a set of arrows and a sealed box containing an unknown substance. Tests carried out at Porton Down, the government’s biological warfare laboratory, confirmed the substance was ricin, a poison for which there is no cure.

He had tried to clear his history minutes before leaving his home on July 29, but analysis of his laptop and phone found them filled with vile images of conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and in Korea, as well as large quantities of academic documents. relating to the genocide.

His research history was dominated by Nazi Germany, ethnic violence in Somalia and Rwanda, and slavery.

Detectives also discovered a US academic study into an Al Qaeda training document, which had been downloaded at least twice since 2021.

It also emerged that a week before the murders, Rudakubana had attempted to return to Range High School, the site of his expulsion five years earlier.

He wore the same hooded sweatshirt (death suit) and surgical mask that he would wear during the attack the following week, but was prevented from making the trip when his father pleaded with a driver taxi driver not to take him.

It is unclear whether Rudakubana intended to attack people that day, but his movements bear a striking similarity to the events of the following week, when he went to a Taylor-themed dance class Swift in Southport and murdered helpless six-year-old Bebe King, Elsie Dot. Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.

On this second occasion, he made sure to book the taxi after leaving the house.