Six months after a teenage attacker stabbed three girls to death at a children’s dance class in England, new details about his background have sparked questions about how authorities repeatedly failed to spot the threat he posed.
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“How did he fall through so many gaps? It is just unbearable to think that something more could and should have been done,” she said.Who is Rudakubana and what happened last year?He pleaded guilty this week to murdering three girls, ages 6 to 9, and attempting to murder 10 other people on July 29 at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class for children in the northern English town of Southport.
He was referred to the government’s anti-extremism program, Prevent, three times — once in December 2019, when he was 13, and twice in 2021. The referrals followed evidence that he had expressed interest in school shootings, the 2017 London Bridge attack, the Irish Republican Army and the Middle East, Cooper said.
He was given mental health and educational support, but later appeared to have stopped engaging with social workers. He was expelled from one school after he brought in a knife, and had long periods of absence from another.The case highlighted how official policies had not caught up with how “terrorism has changed,” Starmer said.
Hannah Rose, a hate and extremism analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank, said many Western countries have focused on ideological or politically driven extremism since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and neglected to tackle a marked rise in the past decade of young people drawn to extreme violence online.
Meanwhile, the government has pledged to change the law so that retailers will need to ask anyone buying a knife for two forms of identification.
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