The story of Axel Rudakubana is important because the authorities not only denied he was a terrorist, they denied he was Muslim. The Starmer regime unleashed a ruthless crackdown on the native population, arresting people for simply saying on the internet that he was a Muslim terrorist.
And not only was Axel Rudakubana a Muslim terrorist, but he had been repeatedly reported to authorities.
The teenager who murdered three young girls at a dance class in Southport was referred three times to Prevent, the government’s scheme to stop terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.
One of the referrals followed concerns about Axel Rudakubana’s potential interest in the killing of children in a school massacre, it is understood.
His behaviour, including his apparent interest in violence, was assessed by Prevent as potentially concerning. But he was deemed not to be motivated by a terrorist ideology or pose a terrorist danger and was therefore not considered suitable for the counter-radicalisation scheme.
Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the Southport attack last summer, was first referred to Prevent in 2019 when he was 13. A further two referrals were made in 2021, all when he was a schoolchild living in Lancashire.
In July, Rudakubana attacked a dance class, killing three girls aged nine, seven and six, and wounding eight more children as well as two adults. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder.
On Monday he pleaded guilty to a terrorism offence, possessing a document called Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants – the al-Qaida Training Manual, and also to producing the biological toxin ricin.
The authorities knew he was a Muslim terrorist. They knew it for a long time. They not only lied, they arrested people for saying so because they were complicit in it.
Now PM Keir Starmer is promising that “Britain will rightly demand answers, and we will leave no stone unturned in that pursuit,”
The answers should begin with why he and government authorities lied, with accountability for those who unleashed the wave of arrests in the cover-up of these murders and Starmer leaving office.