A new condemnatory statement arises about how Axel Rudakubana could kill three young people in a tragic attack by Southport

A review by the Ministry of Interior has discovered serious failures in the management of the Axel Rudakubana anti -terrorism police.

Despite the multiple references to the Government’s anti -terrorism program, preventing Rudakubana’s growing obsession with mass violence was not adequately addressed, reveals a report written on the case.

Rudakubana, 18, declared himself guilty of the brutal murders of Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, baby King, 6, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, in a knife attack described as ‘pure evil’.

Eight other children and two adults were also injured. This week was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years.

The prevent scheme, part of the United Kingdom’s anti -terrorism strategy, aims to prevent people from being attracted to terrorism.

The review of the Ministry of Interior, which will be published in a written manner, discovered that anti -terrorism officers did not properly evaluate Rudakubana’s growing interest in extreme violence.

Despite a worrying behavior history, which includes taking a knife to school and attacking a fellow student, was repeatedly referred to the Prevent program between 2019 and 2021, but every time the officers concluded that it did not represent a threat.

The previous program, which is administered locally by the police and the authorities, first received concerns about the behavior of Rudakubana in 2019.

The authorities may have lost several attempts to arrest Rudakubana before killing three children and trying to kill other young and two adults in Blackpool last summer when he was only 17 years old.

A prison truck that contains Rudakubana arriving at the Liverpool crown for its sentence

Range High School teachers in Formby reported that they had shown an unusual interest in school shootings and massive violence, including disturbing news articles on attacks in the United States.

But anti -terrorism officers ruled out the warning, believing that it was simply a strange interest in current matters instead of a radicalization indicator.

Last year he referred to 162 people to prevent concerns about their interest in school massacres, according to the Interior Ministry.

A source familiar with the review told The Sunday Times: ‘He constantly tried to talk to his teachers about world events.

‘He was watching news articles about mass shootings during the class of IT and trying to talk to his teacher about it. It was a strange behavior for such a young child.

“Anti -terrorism officers decided that he had interest in current news and issues, but was not in danger of being radicalized.”

Despite the fact that the officers had received information about their interests in the attack of the London Bridge, IRA, MI5 and the Middle East, Radakubana prevention officers closed in 2019.

Axel Rudakubana, in the photo during a previous hearing in the Court of the Crown of Liverpool, is being sentenced today

Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, was one of the three girls killed in the attack in Southport

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, was one of the three children killed in the knife attack in Southport

They decided that, although it had vulnerabilities, these services were addressing other services, such as social care and mental health professionals.

The case was not sent to Channel, the next stage of the Previeg program, which would have provided a mentor to intervene and move him out of extremism.

The situation worsened in December 2019, when Rudakubana attacked a schoolmate with a hockey stick, breaking the child’s doll.

Police discovered a knife in their bag, but despite this alarming escalation, the Program foresight did not yet acted decisively.

Additional references were made in 2021, but each time, Rudakubana’s obsession with violent events was minimized.

Yvette Cooper, the Secretary of the Interior, has recognized concerns about the current state of the Preve program.

Recently he declared that a review of the reference thresholds, particularly for people obsessed with school massacres, was underway.

Yvette Cooper, the Secretary of the Interior, has recognized concerns about the current state of the Preve program

In 2023, a significant increase in references related to mass shootings and extremist material online, with many references that involve young people whose ideologies were not clear but showed a dangerous fixation in violence was reported.

Cooper also stressed that interventions should not be delayed for people suspected of being neurodive, such as Rudakubana, who was diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder.

She criticized delays in responses to such cases, warning that not intervening could allow dangerous ideologies to take root.

One of Rudakubana’s former classmates described him as socially isolated, without friends and a tendency to avoid interactions with girls.

“He didn’t fit. Nobody wanted to play with him at rest,” they said.

Preventing the fact that Act is not an isolated case. The case of Rudakubana follows other high profile cases in which the people involved with the program then carried out violent acts, including the stabbing of 2020 and the murder of Deputy Sir David Amess in 2021.

Critics argue that the prevention failure to properly evaluate such cases points to systemic problems within the program.

The Interior Ministry, although it acknowledged that improvements have been made to prevent Rudakubana references, admitted that “the opportunities to intervene” were lost “in their case.

Ken McCallum, general director of MI5, also expressed concern about the emergence of young people who take to extremism online, warning that too many cases are sliding through the network.

Avoid that officials insist that changes have been made since the case of Rudakubana, with a new training and stronger policies for repeated references.

However, the review highlights the continuous challenge of dealing with young people obsessed with violence but without a clear ideological agenda.

The Interior Ministry has confirmed that a complete public investigation on the Rudakubana case is underway, since officials seek to understand what went wrong and ensure that similar failures are not repeated.

The National Crime Agency has been addressed to comment.