The counter terrorism-led Prevent scheme "prematurely" closed Axel Rudakubana's cases and repeatedly misspelt his name, a damning government review has found. The review, commissioned in the wake of Rudakubana's sentencing for a triple murder in Southport,

A damning report has lifted the lid on a catalogue of missed opportunities to stop Southport killer Axel Rudakubana, who was obsessed by the Manchester Arena bombing and school shootings

The report highlighted that in his second referral to Prevent, Axel Rudakubana's name was spelt differently from the first. It noted a Prevent supervisor was unable to find the previous referral and "this may have caused the case to be closed quickly on minimal information".

There was “sufficient risk” posed by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana to keep his cases within the Prevent programme active and these were “closed prematurely”, Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has said.

Rudakubana was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 52 years – one of the highest minimum terms on record – for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on July 29 last year.

Axel Rudakubana had been referred to the Prevent anti-terror scheme three times between 2019 and 2021 The Prevent counter-terrorism scheme "prematurely" closed its case on Axel Rudakubana three years before he went on to murder three children in Southport,

A government review into Prevent's assessment of the dangers posed by murderer Axel Rudakubana have shown the teenager posed a 'significant risk' but the cases were 'closed prematurely'. Rudakubana was handed a life imprisonment with a minimum term of 52 years for the murders of Bebe King,