Southport killer called Manchester Arena bombing 'a good battle', inquiry told

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Teen killer Axel Rudakubana called the Manchester Arena bombing atrocity 'a good battle', the public inquiry into the Southport murders heard today. The inquiry was also told how he attacked an innocent child with a sharpened hockey stick.

Rudakubana was referred to the counter-terrorism Prevent programme in December 2019 when he was just 13 due to his fascination with school shootings and comments in school about guns and severed heads, it was said.

But while the referral was being analysed, Rudakubana went to his former school, The Range in Formby, Merseyside, armed with a sharpened hockey stick and with a knife stashed in his bag, and attacked a pupil on December 11, 2019.

The Southport Inquiry heard on Thursday that Rudakubana told a mental health practitioner that