Sir Keir Starmer said the Southport killings must act as a ‘line in the sand’ for Britain with ‘fundamental change’ required in how to protect children.
Speaking in Downing Street, the Prime Minister said he wouldn’t let ‘any institution’ of the state deflect from failures which he said ‘leap off the page’ in Southport where Axel Rudakubana murdered three young girls.
Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the killings, had been referred to the Prevent programme three times amid a series of missed opportunities to stop him from carrying out the attack on July 29 last year.
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