Stabbing Victims' Families Demand Systemic Changes

0:00A new report just dropped on that horrific stabbing at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport last year, where 17-year-old Axel Rudekubana killed three little girls, 9-year-old Alice de Silva Aguiar, 7-year-old Elsie Dot-Stankholm, and 6-year-old Bebe King, and seriously her 10 others, retired Judge Adrian Fulford led the inquiry and said straight up, this massacre could and should have been stopped if his parents and agencies had, stepped in on his growing obsession with violence. Over years, Rudekubana showed red flags everywhere, assaulting a kid with a hockey stake at 13, getting flagged three times for the governments. Prevent program over talk of school shootings and attacks, even carrying knives and admitting he wanted to stab folks, but cases got closed, handoffs between services failed, and nobody dug deep enough. The attack sparked riots, fueled by fake news, claiming he was a Muslim migrant, though he was born in Wales to Rwandan Christian parents. Families and communities still reeling,

1:01with a judge calling out a nightmare at home where even his dads saw him turn into a monster, yet parents didn't report the knives or threats. Key misses included a 2022 bus stop where he had a knife and poison plans, no arrest, so no house search that would have found ricin. Seeds and terror docks hidden under his bed. The 763-page report lists 67 fixes, blaming a merry-go-round of dropped balls. Prime Minister Kierstharmer called it harrowing and vowed real changes to fix these systemic fails, while the home secretary pushes new laws to, criminalize non-terror violent plots. Steps like these might finally plug the gaps and keep our kids safe moving forward. That's the story for today, Sydney News Today, driven by AI, I'm Corey with The Story.