2025-01-24
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Axel Ruder Cabana and the horrifying failures that allowed him to murder three little girls last summer.
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king was just 6 years old, Elsie dot Stancombe was 7 and Alice de Silva Aguilar was 9.
Three little girls who will never get older murdered at a Taylor Swift themed dance class in Southport last July.
Eight other children and two adults were stabbed in an act of brutality that united the country in horror.
Almost immediately, lies and misinformation began to swirl, sparking the worst racist riots in recent UK history.
This week we learn just how many chances there were to stop this atrocity.
After 18 year old Axel Ruder Cabana pleaded guilty to the attack and was sentenced to life in prison, we now know he'd been caught carrying a knife 10 times, had violently attacked pupils at his old school and had been referred three times to the Government's counter extremism programme Prevent.
All of which came to nothing.
The blunt truth here is that this case is a sign Britain now faces a new threat.
This week, Keir Starmer said that terrorism had changed that it's no longer perpetrated just by organized groups, but also by individuals like Ruda Cabana.
We also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men in.
Their bedroom, accessing all manner of material.
Online, desperate for notoriety, police, his school counter, terror experts, mental health teams, even his parents all knew Rudy Cabana was a dangerous and troubled young man obsessed with extreme violence.
So how was he allowed to go on and kill?
From the Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt.
Axel Ruder Cabana and the changing face of UK terrorism.
Josh Halliday, you are the Guardian's north of England editor and you've been covering this story ever since the day of the attacks.