‘It’s not what Southport is’: how a deadly attack changed a town … and a country

Ripples from Axel Rudakubana's killing of three girls spread wide and deep, from the personal to the political

Southport is a quiet, kind place in which nothing ever happens," said the Rev Thomas Carter, the morning after it happened. People are struggling to understand it."

It wasn't just Southport; the whole country struggled to process the carnage that took place late on a sunny Monday one week into the school holidays.