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.

Despite three Prevent referrals for Axel Rudakubana, counterterrorism police did not believe he was a radicalisation risk, a report reveals

Susan Hall, who also chairs the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, said the public needed ‘transparency’ on the issue.

The Home Secretary has ordered a “thorough review” of the Southport killer’s referrals to the Prevent anti-terror programme “to identify what changes are needed to make sure serious cases are not missed”.

The case will now be considered by the British home secretary who has the final say on some high-profile extradition cases.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is calling for the law to be changed so whole life orders can be imposed on people aged under 18 in some cases. Her calls come after Axel Rudakubana, 18, was sentenced to 52 years for the murder of three young girls in in Southport last July.

The Metropolitan Police has dramatically been taken out of special measures - two-and-a-half years after a slew of scandals and “persistent concerns” about its performance were exposed, a watchdog announced.

Multiple agencies failed to identify the ‘terrible danger’ posed by the 18-year-old, the home secretary said, announcing a new public inquiry into the murder of three girls in Southport

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Counterterrorism officers believed twisted Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was just interested in news and current affairs and not in danger of becoming “radicalised”, a leaked Home Office report has revealed.