Jonny Humphries BBC News, Liverpool Reuters Andrew Tate, who has millions of followers on social media, has been accused of radicalising young men with misogynistic content The parents of a Southport attack survivor said teenage boys need to be protected from the “terrifying” impact of the influencer Andrew Tate. Their daughter, referred to as Child
A hero yoga teacher has revealed her desperate attempts to save children from the Southport attacker despite being knifed five times herself. Speaking publicly for the first time since the massacre Leanne Lucas described helping young girls flee to safety and calling 999 as child killer Axel Rudakubana chased after them. Ms Lucas had been overseeing a Taylor Swift-themed dance
Axel Rudakubana should have been treated as a terror threat after showing a fascination with the Manchester Arena bombing and mass stabbings, a Home Office review found today. The Southport killer was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 52 years for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie
Violent and extremist videos are still online despite government calls for their removal, the home secretary has told the BBC. Yvette Cooper condemned tech giants for failing to take down disturbing videos, including footage watched by the Southport killer, calling their response “disgraceful” and a clear breach of their “moral responsibilities”. Last week it emerged
On Oct. 4, 2019, a 13-year-old British boy called a child welfare hotline from his home in Banks, a village in northwest England, and asked: “What should I do if I want to kill somebody?” The teenager, Axel Rudakubana, said that he had started taking a knife to school because he was being bullied. After
Damian Grammaticas Political correspondent Tech companies should take down harmful material now – Reeves Online platforms must act now to remove violent content viewed by the Southport killer to prevent further attacks, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the BBC. Her comments on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg come after the home secretary wrote to X, Meta,
Violent material viewed by the Southport killer should be removed from social media to ensure it does not inspire further attacks, the home secretary has told tech companies. In a letter to X, Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube, Yvette Cooper said the ease of access to such content, including an al-Qaeda training manual, was “unacceptable”
Murderer Axel Rudakubana has begun a sentence stretching more than half a century inside one of Britain’s toughest prisons, where he will rub shoulders with the nation’s most infamous inmates – and, say insiders, he will never stop being a target for others wanting to attack him for his heinous crimes. The teenage killer, who was handed
Australia’s internet regulator says X refused to take down a video of a high-profile stabbing in Sydney that was watched by Axel Rudakubana just before he murdered three young girls in Southport. The body, eSafety, said it “noted with great sadness” that Rudakubana viewed the violent footage of the attempted murder of Bishop Mar Mari
The £1.70 Amazon knife used by Axel Rudakubana in the Southport massacre was probably handed over to one of his parents, the retailer has suggested. The driver who delivered the blade recorded that the package was given to someone who was visibly over the age 25 at the then 17-year-old’s £130,000 Merseyside home. It came