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Prevent ‘not set up’ to stop killers like Rudakubana as UK terror threat changes

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Axel Rudakubana , 13 , stabbed 11 children and two adults in Southport in July last year .

He was flagged to Prevent seven years before the Southport attack.

New category of 'mixed, unstable or unclear ideology' was added to the scheme in 2017 .

Former senior counter-terror police officers have raised concerns about the scheme.

They say the system is driven by an “obsession with ideology’s very thin line’ between ideology and ideology.

Southport attack has exposed “massive systemic failures which need reform” Government faces a choice between adapting Prevent or creating a different system.

Tim Jacques , who was the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism policing until his retirement last February , said the type of material viewed by Rudakubana was “sadly not uncommon”.