12 h. ago Southport attacker’s psychiatrist had not read notes on past interest in Manchester Arena bombing

Six days before the attack, Rudakubana's risk to others was said to be "none"

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14 h. ago Southport Inquiry hears how attacker's psychiatrist hadn't read notes on violent past

Axel Rudakubana was discharged from CAMHS days before he carried out the attack with his risk to others described as 'minimal'

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16 h. ago Southport attacker’s psychiatrist had not read notes on past violence – inquiry

Dr Anthony Molyneux said it would have been ‘impossible’ to review Axel Rudakubana’s complete patient record.

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6 d. ago Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai review – growing up in public

Clambering up bell towers, dancing the night away and falling in love – how ‘saint’ Malala forged a new identityLying in her Birmingham hospital bed in the weeks after she’d been shot in the head by a Taliban assassin, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai used to imagine the conversation she would have with Taliban leadership. “If they would just sit down with me I could reason with them and convince them to end their reign of misogyny and violence,” she writes in her new memoir.Malala kept a notebook by her bed, filled with rhetorical strategies and talking points – the names of journalists who might be able to broker a meeting with the Taliban, the Qur’an verses she could cite to show that girls do have a right to education in Islam, the things she could say to establish her own credentials as a God-fearing Muslim. Of course, that conversation never happened. Much later, after the fall of Afghanistan in 2021, it made her wince to recall her naive be...

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2 w. ago Police feared Southport killer could be ‘terrorist’ five years before attack

Axel Rudakubana killed Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, at the Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

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2 w. ago 'We won't be defined by that monster': The village fighting to reclaim its identity after Southport attack

"A lot of people in the village feel it's been tainted by what's happened, understandably, but we want to show the other side of it."

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2 w. ago Firms ‘did not know’ machete was in parcel delivered to Southport attacker

The Southport Inquiry heard the machete was sent without age-verified delivery.

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2 w. ago Southport attacker contacted retailers about ordering crossbows, inquiry told

Axel Rudakubana emailed two archery retailers when he was 15, the inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall heard on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago Knife retailer who sold 'Black Panther' machete to Southport killer admits he had 'no curiosity' about who he was supplying

The boss of a knife retailer which sold a 'fearsome' Black Panther machete to the Southport attacker has accepted he had 'no curiosity' about who he was supplying.

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2 w. ago Knife retailer who sold fearsome Black Panther machete to Southport fiend admits 'no curiosity' about customers

The boss of a knife retailer which sold a 'fearsome' Black Panther machete to the Southport attacker has accepted he had 'no curiosity' about who he was supplying.

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2 w. ago Director of website which sold machete to Southport attacker showed no ‘curiosity’

Joseph Wheeler, managing director of Knife Warehouse, gave evidence to the Southport Inquiry on Tuesday.

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3 w. ago Southport attack where three young girls were murdered would have been 'severely worse' if door was locked, dance teacher tells public inquiry

Leanne Lucas, who was injured during the attack, was due to give evidence at the Southport Inquiry , but Liverpool Town Hall heard she was 'not fit'.

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3 w. ago Southport dance teacher says she was 'let down' by those who should have kept her safe

Leanne Lucas was the first person to dial 999 as she rushed dozens of children to safety - despite having been stabbed multiple times already by the Southport attacker

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3 w. ago No one would have imagined Southport attack would happen, inquiry told

Jennifer Scholes, who owned the lease on the dance studio, gave evidence to the public inquiry.

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3 w. ago Prince William has 'genuinely sweet' reaction after hearing what school kids call him

Prince William and Princess Kate visited Southport to meet with the families of the victims of the Southport attacks, and the prince was truly delighted and shocked by a school's greeting

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3 w. ago Taxi driver saw ‘stampede’ of children fleeing Southport attack, inquiry hears

Gary Poland told the Southport Inquiry he left the scene because he believed he heard gunshots.

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3 w. ago Taxi driver feared he could be ‘target of gunman’ at Southport attack

Gary Poland gave evidence to the Southport Inquiry on Thursday.

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3 w. ago King Charles and Prince William spend 'father and son' time together in Balmoral for third year in a row

The Prince of Wales travelled to Aberdeenshire on Tuesday afternoon to spend 'an informal few days with his father privately' after meeting families of the girls killed in the Southport attack.

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3 w. ago Top cop in charge on day of Southport massacre feared multiple attackers were on the loose because of the scale of the horror

Chief Inspector Andrew Hughes was in the Merseyside Police control room on July 29 last year when 999 calls reporting a 'boy with a knife' started to come in at just after 11.45am.

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3 w. ago William and Kate visit Southport schools to show support for families of knife attack victims

The couple also met in private with the parents of seven-year-old victim Elsie Dot Stancombe

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