Southport attack: report shows ‘systemic failure of the state’ to prevent atrocity, says home secretary – live updates

Shabana Mahmood calls Axel Rudakubana a vile and sickening indiviudal' and pays tribute to the immense bravery' of families of the three girls who died and the survivors

• Attack blamed on agencies' failures and killer's irresponsible' parents

Rudakubana was known to the state from October 2019, when the then 13-year-old made several calls to Childline admitting to having murderous thoughts about a bully. He said he had taken a kitchen knife to school on 10 occasions.

Two months later, he returned to his high school armed with a hockey stick and attacked another pupil, breaking their wrist. Police later found a knife in his backpack and arrested him on suspicion of assault and carrying a bladed article.