Southport killer admitted carrying a knife more than 10 times

Southport slayer Axel Rudakubana admitted carrying a weapon much than 10 times but was inactive capable to bargain a leaf connected Amazon, the location caput has said.

Yvette Cooper said nationalist bodies "completely failed to place the unspeakable information that helium posed" arsenic his obsession with utmost unit developed successful the years earlier the attack.

On Monday, Rudakubana pleaded blameworthy to the execution of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, past July. He volition beryllium sentenced connected Thursday.

Earlier, the premier curate warned of a "new and unsafe threat" from violence-obsessed individuals. A nationalist enquiry into missed opportunities to halt Rudakubana has been announced.

Cooper told the Commons it was a "total disgrace" that helium was "easily capable to bid a weapon connected Amazon" astatine the property of 17 contempt having a anterior condemnation for a convulsive offence against different kid astatine school.

An Amazon spokesperson said the institution had "launched an urgent probe successful narration to this tragic case".

The location caput besides said determination would beryllium a "thorough review" of the anti-extremism programme Prevent, aft it emerged that Rudakubana was referred to it connected 3 abstracted occasions betwixt 2019 and 2021.

An archetypal reappraisal implicit the summertime recovered Prevent failed to emblem Rudakubana arsenic a superior menace due to the fact that helium did not grounds a committedness to a azygous extremist ideology, Cooper told the Commons.

She said the 3 referrals took spot aft helium expressed an involvement successful schoolhouse shootings, the 2017 London Bridge attack, the IRA, MI5 and the Middle East.

"Too overmuch value was placed connected the lack of ideology," Cooper said, successful airy of the information Rudakubana was "obsessed with massacre oregon utmost violence".

Cooper said it was "unbearable to deliberation that thing much could and should person been done" to halt him, and that "action against him was overmuch excessively weak".

The location caput said a nationalist enquiry would beryllium fixed each the powers it needed to measure whether reddish flags were missed. Areas of involvement are apt to include:

• The 5 occasions Lancashire Constabulary officers responded to calls from Rudakubana's location code betwixt October 2019 and May 2022, relating to concerns astir his behaviour
• Repeated referrals to safeguarding services, children's societal attraction and teen intelligence wellness services
• A referral to the younker offending squad aft Rudakubana's condemnation for a convulsive offence
• Concerns passed connected to the section authorization by Childline pursuing calls by Rudakubana arsenic a teen, including 1 wherever helium disclosed helium planned to instrumentality a weapon to schoolhouse due to the fact that of radical bullying
• His exclusion and non-attendance astatine school

"There are sedate questions astir however this web of agencies failed to place and enactment connected the risks," Cooper said.

Speaking successful Downing Street earlier connected Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer said failings by nationalist bodies successful the lead-up to the Southport murders "leap disconnected the page".

He said that it was "clearly wrong" Rudakubana was deemed not to conscionable the threshold for involution from the Prevent programme, and warned of the rising hazard posed by "loners, misfits" radicalised online unconnected from ceremonial extremist groups.

On Monday, Rudakubana besides pleaded blameworthy to the possession of an al-Qaeda grooming manual - a panic offence.

However, constabulary person ne'er treated his lawsuit arsenic terror-related arsenic helium did not look to travel a azygous ideology. Cooper said panic laws would beryllium reassessed successful airy of this.

The circumstances astir Rudakubana's offending person led to wider scrutiny implicit what the authorities has described arsenic an expanding menace from young radical with an involvement successful utmost violence.

Cooper told the Commons that 162 radical were referred to Prevent past twelvemonth implicit concerns related to schoolhouse massacres, amid what she described arsenic a "wider situation of rising younker unit and extremism".

The fig of children investigated for engagement with coercion has accrued threefold successful 3 years, she added.

The authorities said tech companies indispensable region the benignant of utmost worldly Rudakubana had accessed online.

They "should not beryllium profiting" from hosting contented that "puts children's lives astatine risk", Cooper said.

Opposition parties person enactment unit connected the authorities implicit what accusation was released to the nationalist astir offences Rudakubana was being investigated implicit anterior to his blameworthy pleas.

On Tuesday, shadiness location caput Chris Philp said "we request to cognize who successful authorities knew what and when".

But Cooper said determination was a hazard Rudakubana could person "walked distant a escaped man" if the authorities had released accusation that prejudiced his quality to person a just proceedings nether UK law.

However, the location caput acknowledged the dispersed of misinformation connected societal media "puts those agelong established rules nether strain" and said contempt of tribunal laws were being reviewed by the Law Commission.

Misinformation astir the Rudakubana's individuality dispersed successful the aftermath of the Southport attack, fuelling convulsive disorder.

Posts falsely claiming Rudakubana - who was calved successful Cardiff - was an asylum seeker who had arrived successful the UK connected a tiny vessel were shared wide online.

More than 1,000 radical person been arrested implicit the consequent riots and hundreds person been charged and jailed.

Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, admitted 3 counts of execution and the attempted murders of 8 different children and 2 adults.

He besides pleaded blameworthy to possessing a weapon connected the day of the attack, accumulation of a biologic toxin - namely, ricin - and possession of accusation apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing to perpetrate an enactment of terrorism.