Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in July 2024, by crazed teen Axel Rudakubana.
The inquiry has heard three separate referrals were made to the Government’s counter-terror programme Prevent about the attacker’s behaviour in the years before the attack, as well as numerous calls to police.
Phase one of the inquiry, which will focus on issues around policing, the criminal justice system and the multiple agencies involved before the attack, is due to be published on Monday.
Rudakubana’s parents emigrated from Rwanda and he was born in Cardiff, moving to Southport with his family as a young child in 2013. In 2017, aged 11, he started at The Range High School, Formby.
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Below is a timeline of some of the key features the inquiry looked at:
October 2019 : Rudakubana contacted Childline and asked: “What should I do if I want to kill somebody?” Later that month he was enrolled at The Acorns School pupil referral unit in Ormskirk. During admission meeting he admitted taking a knife to his previous school, “to use it”
November 2019 : First Prevent referral for researching school shootings during an IT class. Permanently excluded when he admitted taking a knife to school on about 10 occasions.
December 2019 : Returned to the Range school by taxi and attacked a pupil with a hockey stick. A referral order was imposed after he admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Police also found a knife in his backpack. The Acorns refused to have him back and sent homework.
July 2020 : Returned to school under two-to-one supervision
February 2021 : diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (high-functioning, some communication and attention difficulties)
April 2021 : Two further referrals to Prevent after he uploaded two images of Colonel Gaddafi and researched the London Bridge terror attack.
May 2021 : Stopped attending school following reports of incidents at home.
2022 : Place found for him at Presfield High School, Southport. He didn’t attend.
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Oct 2019 -May 2022 : Police have five calls from his home address relating to concerns about his behaviour. In March 2022 found on a bus with a knife telling officers he wanted to stab someone. On each occasion, referrals were made to a multi-agency safeguarding hub.
Aug 2021 - July 2024 : Had ‘Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al Qaeda Training Manual’, containing advice and instructions on committing acts of terror.
February 2023 : Stops engaging with mental health workers, struggling to attend school and has anxiety that makes him unwilling to leave his house.
June 2024 : Tried to buy a knife with a 20cm blade - order cancelled when he failed to pay. Sent emails to various retailers making enquiries about buying knives, some asking whether deliveries could be in plain packaging.
July 2024 : A week before launching the knife attack, Rudakubana attempts to travel to his former school as pupils broke for the summer holidays. His father follows him out of the house and pleads with the taxi driver not to take him.
July 29, 2024 : Searched for “Mar Mari Emmanuel stabbing”, before getting a taxi to the Hart Space in Southport. At around 11:45 he carried out the murders in the first-floor studio as the Taylor Swift dance event took place. Following his arrest, police found a holdall containing arrows, a machete and a scabbard in his bedroom. Under his bunkbed they found a lunchbox containing homemade ricin. They also found images on his tablet devices relating to wars and conflicts, including in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Korea, Iraq and the Balkans.
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