I genitori dell’assassino di Southport affrontano le indagini della polizia – Yahoo News UK
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I genitori dell’assassino di Southport affrontano le indagini della polizia – Yahoo News UK
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The Southport killer’s parents could face criminal charges after police confirmed they were assessing testimony they had given.
Merseyside Police said it would be “obtaining full transcripts” given at the public inquiry to assess whether Alphonse Rudakubana and Laetitia Muzayire provided “new information” that could lead to their prosecution.
Axel Rudakubana’s parents gave evidence for two days last week, when it was heard his mother found knife packaging on the day of the attack but “didn’t seem alarmed” and went back to bed.
Their son went on to kill Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and attempted to murder 10 others at a dance class on July 29 2024.
Mr Rudakubana, who gave evidence with his wife via video link from an unknown location, admitted “what happened on July 29 wouldn’t have happened” if he had called police on any number of occasions prior to the attack.
“That’s an instance I regret so much. I should have called the police,” he said, after discovering a machete belonging to his son in 2023.
‘Parents must be held accountable’
Similar admissions – including the fact they downplayed their son’s violent outbursts to prevent him being taken away – prompted the victims’ families to call for Rudakubana’s parents to be “held to account” for his crimes.
Jenni and David Stancombe, Elsie Dot’s mother and father, previously said: “We believe they should be held to account for what they allowed to happen. They knew how dangerous he was, yet they stayed silent.”
Alex and Sergio Aguiar, Alice’s parents, said: “Parents must be held accountable for the actions and behaviours of their children when they fail to take reasonable steps to prevent harm.”
They addressed their statement to “the parents responsible and to the system that failed”.
Merseyside Police have just ensured that no parents will ever be willing to give testimony to an inquiry ever again. Well done, guys. Really good job.
Good. Maybe we can deport them too while we’re at it.
It’s a tough one. It’s so unusual to hear about people being criticised for not seeking help. Thanks to austerity, it has been many years since there were resources available. I read somewhere that the police WERE involved and so was the school. So it’s not that the authorities were unaware.
I would be willing to bet that if the parents had begged for help, they would have been turned away.
My aunt works for Citizens’ Advice. Like most of her colleagues, she does her best but is retired from a profession that had nothing to do with social work, policing, or healthcare, but routinely has advise people on deal with dangerous family members. Citizens’ Advice is where desperate family members go for help because it is not available anywhere else. She told me recently that she gets several people a week looking for help after being turned away by the police and NHS.
Realistically they probably didn’t do anything illegal.
I can see this leading to new mandatory reporting laws though, which I can’t see ending well because it could easily lead to a massive increase in reports to police.
People who admitted a serious crime leading to multiple deaths might be investigated by the police? Well that’s unexpected! /s