The boss of online platform X (formerly Twitter ) has said it would be “tyrannical overreach” to remove a video of a “horrific” stabbing, which was watched by Axel Rudakubana on the morning of the Southport attack.

Rudakubana, aged 17 at the time, searched the social media site for a video of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel six minutes before he left home on 29 July last year .

The teenager murdered Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven; Bebe King, six; and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine; and attempted to kill 10 others at a Taylor Swift -themed dance class.

On Tuesday, X’s head of global government affairs, Deanna Romina Khananisho, told the Southport Inquiry she was “passionate” about a “ free speech mission”.

Nicholas Moss KC, counsel to the inquiry, asked whether by show

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