The government has announced an independent public inquiry into multiple agencies’ failure to prevent violence by Axel Rudakubana, despite years of warning signs and interventions.
The inquiry comes after revelations that numerous services had contact with Rudakubana between 2019 and 2022.
Home Office minister Yvette Cooper told MPs that Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times between December 2019 and April 2021.
Lancashire Police responded to five calls about his behaviour from his home address.
He had multiple contacts with social care, mental health services and the Youth Offending Team.
“All those agencies had contact with him. Yet between them, they completely failed to identify the terrible danger that he posed,” Cooper told Parliament.
“How did he fall through so many gaps?”
The inquiry will begin on a non-statutory basis to enable swift action, with statutory powers to be added later.
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