Yvette Cooper insisted she was 'keen' to reveal terror links of the Southport killer today amid more claims of a 'cover-up'.
The Home Secretary was grilled on why the government was not more transparent over the Axel Rudakubana case as she faced the Commons.
Her Tory shadow Chris Philp warned that stonewalling on the basis there was an investigation going on would no longer 'cut it' in an era of social media.
The clashes in the House came after Keir Starmer told a press conference in Downing Street that people were right to 'demand answers' over 'failings'.
He confirmed he knew about the details 'as they were emerging'.
Sir Keir said it was a 'devastating moment in our history' and must be a 'line in the sand' for Britain.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was grilled on why the government was not more transparent over the Axel Rudakubana case as she faced the Commons
Merseyside Police today issued this mugshot of Axel Rudakubana, 18, of Banks, Lancashire, after he pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to all 16 counts he was charged with
The Tories and Reform said there were 'serious questions' about the transparency of government information in the wake of the killings.
Laying out details of the public inquiry in the Commons this afternoon, Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said it was 'unbearable' that action might have prevented the attack.
She told MPs: 'That's a total disgrace and it must change. So, we will bring in stronger measures to tackle knife sales.'
The PM told a press conference in Downing Street that people were right to 'demand answers' over 'failings' in the case of Axel Rudakubana
Labour's Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood (left) and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (right). Labourites are giving a masterclass in lies, deceit, and spinning the agenda away from the truth of the threat from Muslim immigrants towards their own political objects, such as censorship and knife control.
Rudakubana pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering the three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July.
It has emerged that he was referred three times to the counter-terrorism programme Prevent, amid concerns over his fixation with violence.
But despite this and contact with other state agencies, the authorities failed to stop the attack which claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.
As well as the three murders, Rudakubana admitted 10 counts of attempted murder, possession of a knife, production of a biological toxin, ricin, and possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit acts of terrorism. The charges relating to the possession of ricin and the al Qaida training manual were not made public for three months after the teenager's arrest.
In the Commons, Mr Philp said: 'On October 29 Rudakubana was charged with possessing the ricin and the terror manual, that was then made public. So, if it can be made public in October, without risking prejudice of the murder trial, it follows that it could have been made public in August, without prejudicing that same trial.
'Background facts on other cases over the years have been made public after arrest and before trial without prejudice, and the shields relating to two of those cases are in this chamber. So why did the Prime Minister not make public some of this background information in August when he knew it, when later disclosure of that information in October demonstrated such disclosure could be made without prejudice?'
Sir Keir said: 'No words come anywhere close to expressing the brutality and horror in this case.'
'Every parent in Britain will have had the same thought. It could have been anywhere, it could have been our children, but it was Southport. It was Bebe, six years old. Elsie, seven. Alice, nine.'
Directly addressing the cover-up claims, the PM said: 'Yes I knew the details as they were emerging '
He said: 'Yes of course I was kept up to date with the facts as they emerged.'
Asked if he viewed the killings as an act of terrorism he insisted it was an act of 'extreme violence clearly intended to terrorise'.
Following Rudakubana's guilty pleas, Sir Keir described the 18-year-old as 'vile and sick', and said there were 'grave questions to answer' on how the state 'failed' to protect the three girls.'
The PM added: 'Britain will rightly demand answers.'
As well as the three murders, Rudakubana admitted to 10 counts of attempted murder, possession of a knife, production of a biological toxin, ricin, and possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
The terrorism offence relates to a PDF file entitled Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al Qaeda Training Manual.
He is also understood to have possessed numerous other documents on violent subjects, including Amerindian Torture And Cultural Violence.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage insisted he had been 'right all along' when he claimed in the summer that information had been withheld from the public.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said there were many questions that 'remain unanswered about what went wrong'.
Welcoming the announcement of a public inquiry, he said: 'We also need to know who in Government knew what and when, as well as why the authorities may have withheld some information from the public.'
Mr Philp told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'There is quite a lot you can put into the public domain without prejudicing the judicial proceedings.
'In previous incidents, we've seen more information being put out and Jonathan Hall drew attention to the risks of not putting out information, it undermines trust in justice, but it also creates a void.
'So, I think these are legitimate questions. I think it's important the inquiry looks at those questions as well as what happened before this appalling incident.'
Police officers at Rudakubana's home on Old School Close in Banks, Lancashire, last October
'I think it's just important the inquiry looks at all of this, gets to the truth both about what happened beforehand, but critically also the Government's response afterwards, and what they knew when and whether they should have put more information into the public domain.
'It appears they withheld information about the perpetrator, potentially, on CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) advice.
'William Shawcross has raised questions over that, saying that if you leave a void, then speculation fills it, and William Shawcross is obviously an expert lawyer, and also says there's quite a lot you can say about these incidents afterwards.
'But clearly in this case, the Government, it appears, didn't share information which they had in their possession.'
Rudakubana's father Alphonse moved to the UK from Rwanda in 2002.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14309023/Home-Secretary-Southport-Yvette-Cooper-Southport-suspects-terror-links-advised.html
The Crime Reporters Association complained to the Director of Public Prosecutions about the Crown Prosecution Service seeking to 'gag' Merseyside Police and instructing officers to 'stay silent' about the case as riots broke out last summer.
The CRA said the CPS had sought to prevent officers revealing details about Rudakubana's Muslim religion.
Rudakubana, had been expelled from high school for carrying out an attack on other pupils with a hockey stick.
At the age of 13, he was suspended for bringing a knife into school and wielding it at other pupils, causing him to be restrained by a teacher.
On another occasion, pupils filmed him attacking a teacher during a lesson, and having to be restrained by three classmates.
Details of an attempted high school attack on July 22 – a week before his murderous rampage in Southport – can only now be revealed, as Rudakubana faces the equivalent of a life sentence for murdering the three girls and 10 other attempted murders.
He was branded 'generational evil' by professionals seeking to cover up his Muslim identity, after his expulsion from school over his obsession with genocidal killers and bloody dictators.
In the months before last July's attack, police were regularly in attendance at his family's £170,000 three-bedroom terraced house in a quiet village outside Southport, in support of social workers, due to the risk he posed.
'Rudakubana rang Childline when he was 13 to say he was going to bring a knife into Range High School' a source said.
'They immediately raised the alarm and he was immediately excluded from school.'
But around a fortnight later he sneaked back onto the school grounds armed with a hockey stick, to attack children who he felt had wronged him. He had put the names of those children on the hockey stick.
Former pupils said one boy suffered a broken wrist.
Police were called after the incident in December 2019 and Rudakubana was later given a ten-month referral order by a youth court.
After the knife threat and then the hockey stick attack he became obsessed with the most horrific violence, eventually culminating in the attack on the dance studio.
A video showing Rudakubana being restrained by fellow pupils at Range High seen by the Mail showed him trying to attack one of the children he accused of bullying him.
'He became obsessed with wars, conflicts, genocides and the most appalling atrocities.
'That's how he came to be referred to Prevent and counter-terrorism.
He became uncontrollably evil.
'He tried to attack his old school a week before the dance studio attack. He booked a taxi to take him to Range High School but his dad stopped him from going.
'Social workers who visited him always brought their own security,' a source said.
'It was felt that for their own safety it was better for them to have someone to keep them safe because they were so worried about what he was capable of.'
The attack on his former school would have been Britain's first high school mass-killing.
On the day of the killings of the 3 girls, Rudakubana donned the identical outfit he had worn a week earlier, with hood pulled up over his head and face covered by a surgical mask.
Leaving his home at 11.10am, and armed with the same fearsome blade, he then booked a taxi to take him to the Ms Lucas's sell-out dance event.
Within half an hour, two children, Elsie Dot Stancombe, aged seven, and Bebe King, six, were dead, nine more children and two adults left fighting for their lives and dozens more lives were ruined – while Rudakubana was under arrest.
One of the critically-injured children, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, died in hospital early the next morning.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, one of the three children killed in the knife attack in Southport
Bebe King, six, who was also killed in the knife attack at The Hart Space in Southport
Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, was among the three little girls killed in the attack in Southport
Rudakubana was 'obsessed' with sociopolitical history focusing on the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
'It was all he would talk about, all he wanted to read about,' said a source who worked with him.
'Just as some children are fixated on football, they know all the players, all their stats, he was the same about genocidal killers and bloody dictators.
'If you wanted to know about the IRA's killing campaign or Colonel Gaddafi's brutal regime, Rudakubana could tell you all about it.
'He collected books and literature and read up on it obsessively. The nastier it was, the more interesting he found it.
Genocide in Rwanda was part of his obsession with violence.
'But the Rwanda genocide was just one of many conflicts that he was fixated by.
'It was his fascination with mass murder and atrocities which fuelled his obsession with carrying out a horrific attack and killing himself.
He just wanted to kill as many people as possible.
But experts dismissed his case as they were assured that he was already getting help from other services, including mental health services.
'The shock of someone so evil living in the heart of the community is going to take a long, long time for everyone in the Southport area to comprehend.'
A prison van containing Axel Rudakubana arriving at Liverpool Crown Court
A heavy police presence outside Liverpool Crown Court for Rudakubana's appearance
His father, Alphonse Rudakubana, was originally from Rwanda, a country that suffered a deadly genocide in the early 1990s, and moved to the UK in 2002.
When Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer visited to pretend to pay his respects the day after the stabbing, there were hostile shouts of: 'How many more Starmer? When are you going to do something?'
Rudakubana's murderous rampage left the nation stunned.
'We've been denied the truth': Farage accuses Starmer of a Southport cover-up as it's finally revealed that Axel Rudakubana was referred to a counter-terrorism programme THREE times
The Reform leader lashed out at Sir Keir Starmer and police, saying the public had been 'denied the truth' about Axel Rudakubana's motives and background.
Authorities missed several attempts to stop Rudakubana before he murdered three children and attempted to murder eight other youngsters and two adults in Southport last summer, when he was aged just 17.
The Mail has learnt that authorities knew of his disturbing interest in a school massacre as far back as 2019.
In 2019 he was referred to the Government's de-radicalisation scheme Prevent on the basis that he had been researching on a school computer for information about the killing of children in school shootings.
The Guardian reported he was also referred twice in 2021 after viewing material about the 2017 London terror attack.
Clacton MP Mr Farage, who is in Washington for Donald Trump's inauguration, said his party would demand Home Secretary Yvette Cooper explain to MPs why his terror links were not revealed sooner.
'I asked that question 24 hours after the murders. I said why are we not being told the truth? Was this man known to the authorities? We were met with a complete wall of silence,' the Reform leader said.
The Reform leader lashed out at Sir Keir Starmer and police, saying the public had been 'denied the truth' about Axel Rudakubana's motives and background
'The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary refused to engage, Liverpool police refused to engage.
'There was nothing about what I asked that would have in any way threatened contempt of court. This is basic background information that the public was entitled to.
'I was accused by mainstream media publications and senior politicians of stoking and encouraging the riots, when actually the riots were happening because of the vacuum of information.'
He added: 'I think that the Government are responsible for the most astonishing cover-up. I think that we need an apology from the Home Secretary and an explanation as to why we have been denied the basic truth.'
Asked if he would be raising this in the Commons, Mr Farage replied: 'We will, as a party, table an urgent question on this. Absolutely.'
Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch said: ‘We will need a complete account of who in Government knew what and when. The public deserves the truth.’
His guilty plea is likely to raise pressure on Prevent to explain how he slipped through the cracks, engaging in a horrific crime and sparking a summer of protests across the UK.
The Government announced emergency security for mosques, big Labour supporters.
It can only now be reported that teachers had concerns about Axel's behaviour.
Teachers were concerned about his violence towards others.
Rudakubana also admitted production of a biological toxin, ricin,
The ricin, a deadly poison was found during searches of the home which he shared with his parents
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14304719/Southport-Axel-Rudakubana-counter-extremism-Prevent-THREE-times.html
Axel Rudakubana's ricin 'KILLED my cat': Neighbour of Southport child killer claims teen's stash of poison caused beloved pet to have seizure and die
A neighbour of the Southport killer claims his ricin hoard poisoned her cat – and the police lied to her about the deadly discovery.
Caroline McDonald said CID officers called at her home to say her cat, Jo-Jo, had entered Axel Rudakubana's family home and back garden as they searched for the poison.
Within hours, her pet had suffered a seizure and died the next day after vets feared he had been poisoned.
Caroline emailed the police asking if any harmful substances had been found at the suspect's property, and the next day a police inspector called at her house stating nothing dangerous had been found.
Rudakubana, 18, was later charged with terror offences after an Al-Qaeda training manual and ricin were found at his home.
Today he pleaded guilty to production of the deadly biological toxin.
Speaking out, Caroline told MailOnline: 'The police have lied to my face. I am livid.
'They told me nothing harmful had been found at the house despite officers going in and out of the house wearing full hazmat suits.
'I heard the officers saying, 'only 50 minutes exposure at any one time', and then when they came out of the house, they had to shower down.
'They were all wearing full breathing apparatus.'
Caroline McDonald said CID officers called at her home to say her cat, Jo-Jo (pictured), had entered Axel Rudakubana's family home and back garden as they searched for the poison
Within hours, her pet had suffered a seizure and died the next day after vets feared he had been poisoned
An officer knocked at Caroline's door with eight-year-old Jo-Jo on August 29 last year – the first day of searching for ricin.
Caroline said: 'CID called to tell me my cat had got into the forensic tent (in the back garden) and possibly into the house. Officers were wearing full apparatus equipment, and my cat got in.
'When my cat came back home, he was a little out of sorts. Then his breathing became shallow and later had a seizure. We rushed him to the vet because he was foaming at the mouth.
'The vet said she suspected poisoning and there was nothing she could do other than put him to sleep.
'I sent an email to the police on August 30, asking to know what they had found.
'An inspector then came to my house and told me there was no toxic chemicals in that house, there was no poison and it was impossible that my cat could have been poisoned at that property.
'Then a few weeks later, Chief Constable Chief Constable Serena Kennedy announced Axel had been charged with producing ricin.'
Caroline added: 'The police knew that there were chemicals in that house but didn't inform the residents of the threat.
'When the police were washing everything down, all the water was running into my garden. The chances are my cat has eaten the grass that has contained ricin and that has killed him.
'I no longer have the cat so I can't prove this but I am livid.
'What I do know is my healthy cat had got into that house and 24 hours later he is dead.'
Caroline has since demanded an explanation from the Independent Office of Police Complaints.
She said: 'The police have hidden what they have found from us. I do not expect to be told everything but do expect not to be lied to.
'If we had been warned about any potential health dangers, we would have taken precautions and kept the cats inside.
'If we had been told of the threat, Jo-Jo would still be alive.'
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: 'We can confirm we have received a complaint from a member of the public regarding the death of a cat on Old School Close.
'Specialist officers completed an extensive search at an address on Old School Close following the murders of three children in Southport on Monday, July 29.
'The complaint will now be investigated by Merseyside Police's Professional Standards Department. As a complaint has been received it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14304937/axel-rudakubana-killed-cat-ricin-neighbour-claims.html
How Axel Rudakubana's parents are linked to the Rwandan genocide - from his father's army experience during 1994 ethnic killings to connections to the current ruling party
Rudakubana was 'absolutely obsessed' with genocide, one official was quoted as saying, adding that the subject was 'all he wanted to talk about'. Documents relating to the atrocity were found in his family home.
The killer has a connection to the genocide in Rwanda through his parents, who were both Tutsi and fled the country following the outbreak of mass killings by the Hutu-dominated regime.
His taxi driver father, Alphonse, fought with the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), an armed force that fought the Hutu government.
The 49-year-old was an officer in the RPA, which invaded from nearby Uganda.
The Rwandan genocide saw an estimated one million people shot, beaten or hacked to death with machetes during just over 100 days of violence that broke out in the east African nation in 1994.
Rwandan Patriotic Front stand next to the skulls of Tutsis massacred by Hutus in the 1994 Rwanda genocide
The Tutsi ethnic group made up only a small proportion (about 14 per cent) of Rwanda's population at the time but made up the vast majority of the dead - with the killers egged on by propaganda comparing the ethnic minority to cockroaches.
Multiple sources in the country and among the Rwandan expat community told the Mail that the Rudakubanas continued to have close links with 'high status' figures linked to the regime.
Rudakubana's parents maintain close connections to the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which is led by the country's president, Paul Kagame
Rudakubana's paternal grandfather, Dr Rudakubana, was an influential figure in Rwanda, as a senior official in the government of President Habyariman, and a founding member of the RPF.
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