WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT The three young girls who died in the Southport tragedy could be alive today if the killer's dad had reported his son's machete, the father now admits View 5 Images The Southport Inquiry is ongoing (Image: PA)

The father of the Southport killer believes the atrocity would not have happened had he reported the delivery of a machete his son had ordered to police. Alphonse Rudakubana told the public inquiry he hid the knife from his son but did not challenge him about it. ‌

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, murdered Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29 last year. ‌

A public inquiry into the murders heard a machete ordered by the teenager, using a false name, was deliver

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