Southport – Institutional rot runs deep
Axel Rudakubana free to kill.
LAURA PERRINS
Axel Rudakubana the Welsh choir boy and Southport murderer; and Valdo Calocane the diversity import and Nottingham killer were free to kill because they were black. Prove me wrong.
I believe that the ethnicity of these killers was the dominating factor for professionals when deciding whether to take serious action against them. The professionals did not use their professional or clinical judgments. Instead, their decisions were influenced by woke academic nonsense on “systemic racism” and “inherent bias” which usually originates from the very worst universities in the US. That’s my theory. Prove me wrong.
The Southport inquiry and Nottingham inquiry have highlighted the very serious failures at the heart of British institutions. You may labour under the delusion these institutions are on the side of the law abiding citizen. Nothing could be further from the truth.
On Monday a report into the failures of the Southport child killing spree was published. The inquiry, chaired by former judge Sir Adrian Fulford, heard that Alex Rudakubana had been involved with public bodies from age 13 and admitted taking a knife into school at least ten times, leading to his permanent exclusion.
Fulford found “this terrible event could have been – and should have been – prevented.” He says the killer’s “trajectory towards grave violence was signposted repeatedly and unambiguously” but the agencies responsible for safeguarding did not act “with the cohesion, urgency or clarity required.”
The chair also criticises the attacker’s family – saying if the “full extent” of their concerns had been “shared with authorities in late July 2024 – including on the day of the attack – it is almost certain this tragedy would have been prevented.” Fulford said he has “no doubt” that if the right procedures were in place and the right steps were taken “this dreadful event would not have happened.”
“It could have been and it should have been prevented.” Indeed when examining the Local Authority the chair said, ‘there was a notable lack of appreciation by the Local Authority of the need to manage the risk AR posed to others. The enduring focus was on the risk to him, rather than the need to protect the public from him.”
Previously, Joanne Hodson, head Acorns pupil referral unit, said she was ‘very concerned’ about Rudakubana and hoped they were going to get help but one by one the agencies ‘peeled away.’ Referral units are the ones that take already excluded children. So she will have seen it all.
By the time of the killings, Rudakubana had not been seen by family or mental health services for months after each abandoned attempts to see him.”
We already know that Ms Hodson was challenged by other professionals when she used the word “sinister” to describe Rudakubana and that she was accused of being a racist.
In Oct 2025, she told the inquiry that she had a “visceral sense of dread” that he would do something. She said “I felt like something was going to happen and there was a level of agitation with direct challenges to staff, the way he was with other pupils. I felt like every day it was building and building and building.”
Ms Hodson, who was acting head teacher when Rudakubana was at the pupil referral unit told the inquiry “I was aware he had taken knives in to school and I was worried that he was going to bring something to our school and in the end he didn’t, he went to the Range and did it, but that is what I feared was going to happen to our school.”
Rudakubana, then aged 17 murdered Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and attempted to murder 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on July 29 last year.
Ms Hodson described a “memorable” first meeting with the teenager at his admissions meeting for the Acorns, when she asked him why he had taken a knife into his former school. She said “he looked me in the eyes and said ‘to use it’. This is the only time in my career that a pupil has said this to me or behaved in a manner so devoid of any remorse.”
Ms Hodson continued, “what also surprised me was that AR’s parents did not flinch at this comment.”
She said the parents believed he had taken the knife into school as a response to being bullied. She told the inquiry “he saw himself and his parents saw him as the victim of the incident rather than the perpetrator.”
These are the Rwandan parents the British state granted asylum to. The inquiry heard that in his education, health and care plan it was noted there were concerns that Rudakubana said or did things which had been described as “sinister” but that word was crossed out.
Ms Hodson said the word was changed to “inappropriate” after professional views were submitted by the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS).
She said “I was challenged quite heavily and told no child should ever be described as sinister and as a professional I should not be using those words. The other issue was I was told my attitude towards the risk around him was because I perceived him to be a black boy with a knife.”
Ms Hodson said his parents were of the view he was a “good boy” who never did anything wrong and that “any issues were someone else’s fault.” This is the father who knew his son had obtained a machete. The BBC “Alphonse Rudakubana accepted he had intercepted a package containing a machete that his son had ordered online in June 2023 and hid it on top of a wardrobe – but did not tell any agencies including mental health teams, police or social services. He told the inquiry: “I regret that I didn’t tell the police because, if I did, what happened on the 29th wouldn’t have happened. They would have come and checked everything in his room.”
Exactly. “They” would have checked everything in this room, we assume, perhaps detained him and those three girls would still be alive aright now. But Mr Rudakubana stayed silent. On Monday Fulford confirmed that ‘if AR’s parents had done what they morally ought to have done, AR would not have been at liberty to conduct the attack and it would not therefore have occurred.”
This shutting down of legitimate concerns by accusing someone of racism has real consequences. The consequences in this case where that Rudakubana went on to murder three school girls. Alex Rudakubana was free to murder these children because he was black. That’s my humble opinion.
Another man who was free to murder three people because he was black was the “Nottingham killer” Valdo Calocane. I already explained before that Valdo wasn’t really from Nottingham, he was another diversity import. Calocane was born in Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, coming to the UK with his family aged 16 in 2007. Obviously.
On 13 June 2023, Valdo Calocane – who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia three years earlier – stabbed to death students Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley Kumar and soon to be retired school caretaker Ian Coates. Calocane also stole Ian’s van and drove into the city centre, where he struck pedestrians Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski, leaving them with life-changing injuries.
The BBC reported 3 days ago from the public inquiry “a killer’s history of violence and a string of police failings form just some of the evidence heard so far by a public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks.”
The former chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police, Kate Meynell, admitted in her evidence that Calocane should have been arrested before he carried out the attacks.
We already know that Valdo Calocane was free to kill because he was black. He had a history of carrying out violent attacks including when he attempted to break into a neighbour’s flat during a psychotic episode in May 2020. But was not committed to a psychiatric hospital after professionals considered an “over-representation of young black males in detention.”
Of course they did.
How victims’ families were treated after the attacks was nothing short of disgraceful. It emerged that “Grace and Barnaby were both tested for drugs and alcohol after the fatal attacks – but Calocane was not.” Of course they did.
Following the attacks, it emerged a number of police staff had viewed sensitive information about the attacks, the victims and the killer without a proper policing purpose. An officer also sent an “offensive” message about the attacks in a WhatsApp group, which included the then chief constable’s son. The survivors and the bereaved families said they learned about the WhatsApp group and data breaches through the media.
This is what you are dealing with these days. Because the families had not suffered enough.
If the Welsh choir boy was white, the authorities would have moved sooner to detain him. If the ‘Nottingham killer’ was white he would have been detained for one of his serious violent attacks and not given the opportunity to kill three people and inflict life changing injuries on three more.
These men were free to attack these children, young students, and soon to be retired school caretaker (whose body was left at the crime scene for 15 hours) because they were black.
There is serious, life threatening, institutional rot at the heart of the police and other decision makers. Your life, and the lives of your children, are in their hands. The fact that they prioritise the safety of known and dangerous individuals and not the safety of the public should terrify us all.
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