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As well as being referred to Prevent three times between 2019-2021, Rudakubana was excluded from school aged 13 in October 2019, after which he returned to the school in December that year with a hockey stick and assaulted a pupil, breaking their wrist.<\/p>\n
Lancashire Child Safeguarding Partnership said Lancashire Constabulary responded to five calls from his home address, between October 2019 and May 2022, relating to concerns about his behaviour.<\/p>\n
Rudakubana also called Childline several times as a young teenager, eventually telling the service he was going to take a knife into school because of racial bullying.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir said it was “clearly wrong” Rudakubana was deemed not to meet the threshold for intervention from the Prevent programme, and the Southport victims’ families had been failed. <\/p>\n
The prime minister said the Southport attack “must be a line in the sand” and “nothing will be off the table” in the public inquiry. <\/p>\n
He added that he would not let any state institution “deflect from their failure – failure which in this case, frankly, leaps off the page”.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir’s decision to deliver a speech after Rudakubana’s guilty pleas was not only a recognition of the “barbaric” attack but also the failures of the state in its handling of the teenager over the years, and the intensity of the reaction to the murders. <\/p>\n
The section of the speech dedicated to combatting claims of a “cover-up” about Rudakubana’s motivations showed the prime minister was anxious to dispel claims he should have been more frank, before the case came to court, about the various authorities which were aware of the teenager. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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