Southport killer had three 30-minute sessions with social workers after earlier conviction, inquiry told

Social workers spent three 30-minute sessions with the Southport killer after he went into his old school armed with a knife and attacked a fellow pupil with a hockey stick, the inquiry has heard.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on 29 July last year by Axel Rudakubana , who was aged 17 at the time.

On 19 February 2020, Rudakubana, then aged 13, received a 10-month referral order following his guilty plea to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and possession of a bladed article.

The order required him to follow a number of courses and to participate in education but there were no notes from phone contact made by the Lancashire