0h 6min, jul 8, 2025 y - Southport Public Inquiry

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There was a "wholesale and general failure" to address the risks posed by Axel Rudakubana before the Southport attack, the chairman of the public inquiry into the murders has said.

In his opening statement at Liverpool Town Hall, Sir Adrian Fulford said the teenager's "known predilection for knife crime" suggests it was "far from an unforeseeable catastrophic event".

The former vice president of the Court of Appeal said Rudakubana's actions "impose the heaviest of burdens" to investigate how it was possible for him to cause "such devastation".

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