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Southport killer was known to services that failed - as former social worker warns over 'holes in the system'

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From the age of 13 , Axel Rudakubana had been on the radar of police, safeguarding services, mental health teams and counterterrorism programme.

His obsession with mass murder was known about.

But there was nothing to stop him going to a dance class, murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar , nine , Bebe King , six , and Elsie Dot Stancombe , seven , and attempting to murder many more.

A public inquiry that will now take place needs to examine why the system failed.

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