Starmer to be grilled at PMQs over Southport killings as Axel Rudakubana’s family go into hiding: latest - Teenage killer’s family moved to secret location for protection, father’s church reveals

Questions continue over why UK authorities did not publish key details about Axel Rudakubana earlier than they did.

Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times before he killed three schoolgirls but was considered unsuitable for the anti-terror programme

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

Sir Keir Starmer announced a review of terror laws to address “extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms” after Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty on Monday to murdering three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside, in July.

Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to a minimum 52 years in jail for the killing of three young girls in Southport in a stabbing attack in 2024. After Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a public inquiry, saying the state “failed in its duty” to protect the girls.

After a teenager admitted murdering three girls at a dance class, Keir Starmer said people were being radicalized into violence for its own sake and terrorism laws might need to change.

Axel Rudakubana’s neighbours have been selling their homes and telling of their horror at living next to the Southport murderer.

Police chiefs are urging ministers to give them access to the driving licence database so they can catch more of the Southport Far-Right rioters using facial recognition. The National Police Chiefs’ Council told the Commons home affairs committee that 127 suspects involved in the summer riots had been identified using retrospective facial recognition.

Keir Starmer says that terrorism has 'changed' and that the problem must be urgently addressed. But the system is fluid when it comes to what classifies as terrorism

In South London, a stabbing near a Croydon supermarket led to five being treated, one critically. London's Metropolitan Police arrested a suspect. The incident coincided with a sentencing related to a separate fatal stabbing case in Southport,