‘My son was radicalised online when he was 14. I was too scared to tell the police’
Published By admin
Axel Rudakubana was 17 when he murdered three young girls in Southport back in July 2024. The horrific attack came after years of Rudakubana watching extreme and violent content online, without any supervision.
A new report from the Southport Inquiry now suggests that the tragedy could have been prevented if his parents had shared all their concerns with authorities, as well as pointing out numerous missed opportunities for intervention from agencies, including the decision to reject him from the anti-terror and deradicalisation programme Prevent.
His mother told the hearing: “There are many things that Alphonse and I wish we had done differently, anything that might have prevented the horrific event of July 29 2024. (For) our failure, we are profoundly sorry.”
The report has sparked conversations about what parents should do if they notice signs of their children being radicalised online. Below, one mother, Sarah, shares her story of how she discovered her son John had been watching extremist content online from the age of 14, and her painful struggle in trying to work out what to do.
Read more https://www.independent.co.uk/news/radicalised-southport-killer-extremist-b2957526.html
Content retrieved from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/radicalised-southport-killer-extremist-b2957526.html.
