Southport killer’s brother asks whether attack could have been prevented

Dion Rudakubana tells inquiry his younger brother, Axel, became progressively more isolated' after school expulsion

Axel Rudakubana was discharged from mental health services six days before he murdered three young girls and stabbed several others at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport, it has emerged.

The inquiry into the atrocity was told on Wednesday that a risk assessment was undertaken on Rudakubana, then 17, a week before the attack in July last year. Its findings have not been disclosed.