Damning Report Revealed on Southport Attacker's Overlooked Threats

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A damning review has exposed a series of fundamental failures in the Prevent counterterrorism programme, revealing that authorities missed multiple opportunities to intervene in the case of Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana. The Home Office report concluded that officers dismissed the threat he posed on three separate occasions between December 2019 and April 2021, largely due to basic errors, including spelling mistakes.  

 

Despite being flagged for carrying a knife and conducting internet searches on school shootings, the 2005 London bombings, the IRA, the Manchester Arena attack, and the Israel-Palestine conflict, his case was prematurely closed each time. As a schoolboy, Rudakubana displayed concerning behavior from Year 8 onwards. During one art lesson, he questioned why he could draw images of guns but was not allowed to search for them online. He then asked, “Can we have a picture of a severed head then?”  

 

He made disturbing remarks about “getting teachers murdered,” described the Manchester Arena bombing as a “good thing,” and admitted to police that he had wanted to “finish off” another pupil he had attacked with a hockey stick. The report found that each of his three referrals contained “sufficient risk” to warrant action through the Prevent programme.  

 

However, his final referral was closed more than three years before he carried out the knife attack in Southport last summer, which resulted in the deaths of three girls. The review uncovered significant evidence that Rudakubana had expressed intentions to kill since the age of 13 and had been known to police since he was 12, when he admitted to carrying a knife.  

 

Authorities were first alerted to him in April 2019, eight months earlier than previously disclosed. At that time, he had called the National Crime Agency (NCA), admitting to bringing a knife to school and reporting that he had been bullied. The NCA informed local police, who subsequently visited his home.  

 

A newly published 55-page Home Office report detailed a catalogue of errors, including the misspelling of Rudakubana’s name in his second and third Prevent referrals in February and April 2021. The report suggested that these spelling errors may have led to his case being closed prematurely, as Prevent supervisors were unable to access his previous referrals in the system. Furthermore, critical information about his behavior was never recorded due to a system flaw that prevented file uploads. Screenshots of his concerning social media posts, shared between two schools and the police, were therefore excluded from his file.  

 

The report also criticized Prevent’s confusing guidance, which discourages police from visiting individuals at home after their first referral. Officers reportedly had to go through excessive bureaucratic hurdles to arrange a home visit for Rudakubana, despite acknowledging that “so little was known” about him.  

 

In December 2019, at the age of 13, he was arrested after attacking a fellow pupil with a hockey stick, breaking the victim’s wrist. When police searched him, they found a knife. He then told Merseyside officers that he wanted to “finish [the pupil] off with the knife and was not bothered by prison.” A relative later informed authorities that Rudakubana, who had claimed to be a victim of bullying, allegedly had a “hit list” of three targets.  

 

The Home Office report highlights how these failures allowed Rudakubana’s violent tendencies to escalate unchecked, ultimately leading to a tragic attack that might have been prevented with more diligent oversight.

 

Based on a report by The Times 2025-02-07

 

 

[mikeymike100]

"A damning review has exposed a series of fundamental failures in the Prevent counterterrorism programme, revealing that authorities missed multiple opportunities to intervene in the case of Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana. The Home Office report concluded that officers dismissed the threat he posed on three separate occasions between December 2019 and April 2021, largely due to basic errors, including spelling mistakes.

 

Did the authorities miss all these opportunities to intervene or was it on purpose, so as not to seem racist, like the Pakistani muslim rape gangs?? Is there a pattern here?

[Bkk Brian]

10 hours ago, Social Media said:

Authorities were first alerted to him in April 2019, eight months earlier than previously disclosed.

its all coming out now............

[Purdey]

The common excuse is that the police don't have enough people to investigate everyone. I wonder what they will say now.

[Chomper Higgot]

The Home Office report concluded that officers dismissed the threat he posed on three separate occasions between December 2019 and April 2021, largely due to basic errors, including spelling mistakes.  
 

 

Remind me who was Home Secretary at the time these strings of referrals were made?

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

13 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The Home Office report concluded that officers dismissed the threat he posed on three separate occasions between December 2019 and April 2021, largely due to basic errors, including spelling mistakes.  
 

 

Remind me who was Home Secretary at the time these strings of referrals were made?

 

 

What's that got to do with the report and the mistakes made by police? Why do you constantly try to make it political?

[tjintx]

18 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The Home Office report concluded that officers dismissed the threat he posed on three separate occasions between December 2019 and April 2021, largely due to basic errors, including spelling mistakes.  
 

 

Remind me who was Home Secretary at the time these strings of referrals were made?

 

 

 

Remind me who was Home Minister when the murders and maiming of the children occurred?

[Chomper Higgot]

5 minutes ago, tjintx said:

 

Remind me who was Home Minister when the murders and maiming of the children occurred?

Did you read the OP?

 

The last referral was closed 3 years before the killer committed his heinous attack.

[David in the north]

1 hour ago, mikeymike100 said:

"A damning review has exposed a series of fundamental failures in the Prevent counterterrorism programme, revealing that authorities missed multiple opportunities to intervene in the case of Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana. The Home Office report concluded that officers dismissed the threat he posed on three separate occasions between December 2019 and April 2021, largely due to basic errors, including spelling mistakes.

 

Did the authorities miss all these opportunities to intervene or was it on purpose, so as not to seem racist, like the Pakistani muslim rape gangs?? Is there a pattern here?

YES

[loong]

Strange that now the photos used in reports, he looks like the devil's spawn, in sharp contrast to the schoolboy photos that they used at the time of the attack!

[blaze master]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

What's that got to do with the report and the mistakes made by police? Why do you constantly try to make it political?

 

You already know the answer.