Laetitia Muzayire, the mother of Axel Rudakubana, who killed three children in Southport last year, testified at an inquiry today, stating she did not believe her son would use the weapons in his room to harm others. Muzayire described the bow and arrow found in her son's room as something that could be "used for sport". During her testimony, she initially denied seeing any weapons, despite her husband, Alphonse Rudakubana, asserting that she was present when he discovered them. Alphonse recalled his wife being "petrified" upon finding the weapon. Muzayire later claimed she had only briefly entered the room to change the sheets and denied seeing a bow and arrow, knives, firecrackers, or a substance in a box. She acknowledged that her husband had previously mentioned seeing a bow and arrow but maintained her belief that it was intended for sport. "I never knew that it could be used to hurt others," she stated. When questioned about her son's lack of activity outside the home since March 2022, she was confronted with the suggestion that she was either "extraordinarily naive" or "deliberately lying". Muzayire admitted to being naive. The inquiry also revealed that Muzayire denied seeing knife packaging in their home on the day of the attack, despite her fingerprint being found on it. She had previously denied knowledge of the packaging during a police interview, although her son, Dion, claimed she had shown him the knife packaging on July 29 last year. "Knives, I hate it all with my heart. The knives have been used to kill my family and in the past. I don’t like the knife. I’m a loving person, I don’t hurt people, please," she expressed during the inquiry. When asked about the motive behind her son's attack and why he targeted a specific dance class, Muzayire stated she did not know. She was also asked if there was anything she could have done differently to manage the risk posed by Rudakubana, to which she replied, "Yeah, call the police." The parents of one of the victims, Jenni and David Stancombe, whose seven-year-old daughter Elsie Dot Stancombe was killed in the attack, expressed their belief that Rudakubana's parents should be held accountable. In a statement, they said, "Reading [Rudakubana's parents'] statements has only added to the unbearable pain that David and I already live with every single day. "We knew early on that their lack of parenting played a part in all of this, but these statements reveal a failure of parenting on a whole new level. We believe they should be held to account for what they allowed to happen. They knew how dangerous he was, yet they stayed silent. They didn’t report their concerns, they didn’t act, and in doing so, they failed not only as parents but as members of our society. Their statements show no real remorse or acceptance of the devastation their son caused. Instead, they try to distance themselves from the truth and deflect from the reality they ignored." In addition to Elsie, two other young girls, Bebe King, six, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were also killed in the tragic incident.