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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:31:44 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr411lzn1qwo

   Those who failed to take action to try to prevent the Southport attacks will be named unless suitable disciplinary measures are taken, the legal representative for the three murdered girls' families has said.

   Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in June 2024.

   On Monday, the public inquiry identified "catastrophic" parental and local authority failings, with a "merry-go-round" of referrals, assessments and "hand-offs" between agencies failing to stop the "predictable and preventable" attack.

   Chris Walker said he was prepared to identify key individuals from five agencies.

   Walker told BBC Breakfast: "There are five particular state entities which are causing us most concern and we, frankly, find their behaviour unacceptable.

   "Prevent, Lancashire Police, Lancashire Social Services, CAMHS, and FCAMHS."

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:35:15 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate Good.
     And if these people did what they did because they were threatened with dismissal, they need to name the people who threatened them. Keep going until we get to the top, because the top is probably where the namings and the sackings should be. The revolving door of zero accountability needs to stop.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 03:21:51 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma https://unherd.com/2026/04/axel-rudakubana-and-the-moral-rot-of-the-state/

     The report elaborates on the point: “Far from recognizing that [he] was responsible for his own actions, and that his ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) meant (in his individual case) that he posed an increased risk of harm to others, agencies regularly used his autism as an explanation or even excuse for his conduct, including his violence. This was both unacceptable and superficial.” As with the condemnation of the public sector “merry-go-round”, this unapologetic rejection of the maximally “#bekind” position strikes me as noteworthy. At least, it is more no-nonsense than we might expect from a 21st-century inquiry chair. And then there’s the analysis of the parents’ shortcomings. While acknowledging the significant difficulties they faced with their younger son, Sir Adrian also variously describes them as obstructive, manipulative and harmful; they failed to “set boundaries and to enforce expectations”; if they “had done what they morally ought to have done”, the attack would not have occurred. The 2016 version of this, I suggest, would have read somewhat differently. It’s subtle, but the emphasis on parents’ moral obligations, separate from the legal framework, and on the need to “enforce” their expectations, again gives a slightly more prescriptive tone than we have become used to — even in a report of this gravity.

     Most startling of all — albeit of lesser significance in the chain of causation, and not in the report’s five “fundamental problems” — is the discussion of how an implied and unfounded accusation of racism led to the watering down of Rudakubana’s EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan). This is a legally binding document that sets out a Local Authority’s obligations, and specifies the special educational provision required to safely and effectively meet a pupil’s needs. In 2021, Rudakubana’s EHCP was reviewed. Deputy headteacher Joanne Hodson — who Sir Adrian emphatically calls a “highly impressive witness” — wanted to include a section detailing the risks Rudakubana posed to others. But Samantha Steed, from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, wished it removed. In Hodson’s words “[she] even went so far as to accuse me of racially stereotyping [him] as ‘a black boy with a knife’”. There had been no mention of his skin color until that point. But the implied accusation had its effect. As Hodson put it in evidence, “that effectively shut me up … that was the point at which I – that professionally just closes me down completely, doesn’t it?” As a result, the document was toned down.

     https://archive.ph/xJNt8

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     BILLSan345 (billsan345@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 03:22:13 JST BILLSan345

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     @HebrideanHecate @KeepTakingTheSoma Samantha Steed puts herself right in the crosshairs by her moronic contribution: how to stop the truth in its tracks by pulling on the ‘racism’ whistle.
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     @BILLSan345 @KeepTakingTheSoma https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/04/14/behold-the-murderous-incompetence-of-the-british-state/

     The 760-page report, the product of nine weeks of inquiry, does not hold back. It lambasts Rudakubana’s parents for withholding information about their son’s purchase of lethal knives and his attempts to make the toxin, ricin. It says they knew he had tried to leave the house the week before the Southport massacre to launch some kind of attack at his old school. Most damningly of all, the report says his parents knew there was ‘empty knife packaging’ in the house on the day Axel took a taxi to Southport, but they failed to inform police. Think about this: we live in a country where you can get a knock on the door from the boys in blue for saying men aren’t women, yet a runaway boy with a knife and dreams of murder gets a police ride home. We have police forces who dance like arseholes round the Pride flag and carry prayer mats in the back of their vans in case a local Muslim needs to bow to Mecca, and yet they fail to take seriously an armed teen who’d been referred to Prevent when he says he wants to kill someone. This is indisputable proof that the ‘enwokening’ of the machinery of state is not just vexing and inappropriate – it’s lethal, giving us cops more interested in enforcing moral orthodoxy than saving citizens’ souls. We already know we live under a state content to let girls be sexually assaulted if it will help to avoid uncomfortable discussions about multiculturalism. Now we know this same state’s depthless incompetence essentially assisted in the murder of three girls. It brings to mind the searing observation of the cultural critic Terry Eagleton – that evil has ‘a natural affinity with the bureaucratic mind’. It is in the barren moral wilderness of back-covering technocracy that the evil among us often spy an opportunity to strike. The Southport horror shames a whole nation.

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