UK to hold public inquiry into dance class killings
China DailyBy EARLE GALE in London | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-01-22 00:39 Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, Britain Jan 21, 2025, following the guilty plea of the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana. Keir Starmer said 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana's murders on July 29 of 6-year-old Bebe King, 7-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and 9-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar in the town of Southport in northwest England should not have been allowed to happen. "The blunt truth here is that this case is a sign Britain now faces a new threat," Starmer said in a public statement from 10 Downing Street. Starmer said the public inquiry will seek to establish why Rudakubana, who had a long history of violence and who police officers had visited at least five times, was not identified as a possible terrorist and put through de-radicalization programs such as the Prevent program, despite having been referred to it on numerous occasions.
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