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Failing to remove extreme content ‘risks other attacks’, Cooper tells tech firms

The Home Secretary has written to firms including Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta telling them to urgently review content.

Evening Standard

Headteachers pay tribute to Southport victims

Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar died in the attack by Axel Rudakubana.

Evening Standard

Southport murders condemned as 'most harrowing' investigation Merseyside Police ever seen

Investigating the Southport murders committed by Axel Rudakubana was the "most harrowing" large-scale investigation ever dealt with by Merseyside Police, the Senior Investigating Officer of the investigation concluded after the 18-year-old was sentenced on Thursday, 23 January.

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Southport victim’s mother fears graphic details could be used to fuel hatred

Police urged social media commentators not to post graphic details of the Southport victims’ injuries at the request of the family.

Evening Standard

Parents of Southport murder victims share ‘permanent numbness’ after ‘pure evil’

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29.

Evening Standard

Timeline of events related to the Southport stabbings

Axel Rudakubana, 18, killed Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in the stabbing.

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Pictures show armoury of weapons Southport killer stored in bedroom

Images and documents relating to violence, war and genocide were found on his devices.

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Social media companies could have helped to prevent riots, police chief says

Violent disorder was seen across the country after Axel Rudakubana killed three girls.

Evening Standard

Southport attack survivor says victims have ‘scars we cannot unsee’

Survivors of the July 29 attack spoke at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday.

Evening Standard

The false claim that Southport trial was deliberately timed for Trump inauguration

The claim echoes other posts over recent months which make various claims about the timing of both events

The Independent UK

Fact check: Photograph of Prime Minister with Southport attacker is fake

The image has been shared widely on social media, likely as a joke.

The Independent UK

Britain facing new terror threat from generation of ‘young men in their bedrooms’, Starmer warns

PM lays groundwork for an overhaul of terrorism laws to capture the new threat of ‘loners and misfits’ driven to acts of extreme violence by ‘all manner of material online’

The Independent UK

Southport killer: What was known when?

Axel Rudakubana was known to agencies before carrying out the killings.

The Independent UK

Southport killer: what was known when?

Axel Rudakubana was known to agencies before carrying out the killings.

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Two-year-old boy who died in ‘medical episode’ at nursery named

Parents of Jude Gerrard paid tribute to their ‘incredibly special’ son

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Horror inside summer holiday dance class

Axel Rudakubana armed himself with a large kitchen knife before heading to the Taylor Swift themed even for children.

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Authorities deny witholding information on Southport attacks

Full details of the prosecution case will be made public when Axel Rudakubana is sentenced on Thursday.

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Southport killer spoke in court for first time to enter guilty pleas

The 18-year-old had not put forward a defence case statement and lawyers were not planning to advance a positive case on his behalf at trial.

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Why Axel Rudakubana will not get a whole life sentence for Southport massacre

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is due to be sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to murder of three children and trying to kill 10 other people

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Who are the victims of Axel Rudakubana’s attack?

Three girls were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed class last year.

Evening Standard

How the Southport stabbings sparked violence across the country

Within hours of his attack, posts spread on the internet which claimed the suspect was a 17-year-old asylum seeker.

The Independent UK

‘Speak up for Ellis’: Mother of teenager shot in back issues emotional plea on his 20th birthday to find killer

‘Kind’ and ‘laid back’ Ellis Cox was shot in the back in a confrontation on a Liverpool industrial estate last June

The Guardian - UK

Merseyside police ‘surprised’ to catch boy, 7, driving off-road scrambler bike

Concerned members of public alerted officers to vehicle being driven erratically in Knowsley on New Year’s Eve

The Independent UK

Man hit in groin with brick during Southport riots jailed

Brian Spencer featured in video which went viral after he was injured while taunting police.

The Independent UK

Southport rioter filmed being hit in groin with brick jailed

Brian Spencer also admitted racially abusing a fellow hospital patient while being treated for his injuries

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