A Home Office review has found that Southport killer Axel Rudakubana should have been treated as a terror threat after showing an interest in the Manchester arena attack
Tbe Security Minister Dan Jarvis also said that three referrals were “closed prematurely” with “sufficient risk” to keep his cases active
Jarvis told MPs in a statement in the Commons that agencies “failed to act on the warning signs”
Rudakubana was in touch with public services a total of 15 times, a learning review into the Prevent programme has said.
The review found an “under-exploration of significance of repeated referrals and cumulative risk” with Rudakubana’s history of violence. He says he could have been into the Channel intervention programme as “mixed-unstable or unclear” ideology
The review found subjective decisions were wrong even though policies in place at the time were broadly followed
There was, it added, a lack of further research and over-emphasis on apparent lack of ideology
Jarvis told MP’s that fourteen recommendations have been made by the review, and the findings accepted
A new Prevent assessment framework was launched in September, to tirage and assess referrals and improve decision-making and that the Government has also started an end-to-end review of Prevent thresholds
