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The journey of Axel Rudakubana to becoming a killer and whether it could have been prevented is under scrutiny after he carried out the brutal murders of three young girls. By the time he committed the crimes, he was already well known to the police, anti-extremism authorities, and other public agencies. Several opportunities were missed to stop him turning his dark obsessions into a reality. The government admitted that the state had failed noting that they missed several warning signs.
Rudakubana’s history of anger issues and a tendency for violence began to emerge when he was in year nine at Range High School in Formby, Merseyside. He was obsessed with figures such as Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan. He was later diagnosed with autism and enrolled in two other schools for children with special needs. He also had an involvement with local mental health services before he stopped engaging in February 2023.
Several local agencies had various levels of contact with Rudakubana during the years he stopped attending school. Lancashire Constabulary had “several” further interactions with the teenager between October 2019 and May 2022, including four calls from his home address relating to concerns about his behaviour. However, children’s social care carried out an initial assessment into Rudakubana and found that social work support was not required.
Rudakubana’s twisted interest in violence began to emerge before and after the attack in Southport on 29 July 2024. He was referred to the government’s anti-extremism Prevent program three times over concerns about his interest in violence. He had expressed an interest in school shootings, the London Bridge attack, the IRA, MI5, and the Middle East.
Despite the three referrals over Rudakubana, concerns about him were never escalated up the chain, meaning he wasn’t put under enhanced monitoring. An urgent review of the Prevent program found that his case had not been treated as a terror investigation as there were no signs of any allegiance to a single cause. His case highlighted concerns over whether Prevent is equipped to identify dangerous people who fall outside the traditional view of what constitutes an extremist. His sentencing date is set for Thursday, but the questions posed by his descent into violence will be agonized over for years to come
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