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• UK experts warn of dangers of violent content being readily available online

  21-01-2025 21:38
  
  Ofcom figures show number of people seeing material depicting or encouraging violence or injury has risenSix minutes before Axel Rudakubana left home to murder three girls at a Southport dance class, he searched for a video of the Sydney church attack in which a bishop was stabbed while livestreaming a sermon.
  That video from last April, which is still available online, was among Rudakubana’s internet history, which officials said showed his “obsession with extreme violence”.
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• UK ministers pledge to overhaul terror laws amid Southport murders outcry

  21-01-2025 21:09
  
  Keir Starmer says social media platforms must also act to remove extreme content that is inspiring violenceTerrorism laws will be overhauled and technology companies be pressured to remove a “tidal wave” of online violent content that is inspiring acts of murder, ministers have said amid growing anger over the Southport stabbings.After it emerged Axel Rudakubana had accessed violent content in his bedroom before he stabbed three girls to death in July, Keir Starmer said it could not
  
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• Southport killer will be treated as a terrorist in jail, Yvette Cooper tells MPs – as it happened

  21-01-2025 19:10
  
  Home secretary also says inquiry into the attack will cover wider threat posed by youth violenceStarmer says nothing will be off the table in the inquiry.There are also questions about the accountability of the Whitehall and Westminster system – a system that is far too often driven by circling the institutional wagons, that does not react until justice is either hard won by campaigners, or until appalling tragedies like this [take place].Time and again we see this pattern, and people are
  
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• Keir Starmer says he will change terror legislation to deal with lone killers – video

  21-01-2025 12:02
  The prime minister said the government would change terrorism legislation to more effectively deal with a changing threat posed by lone killers. In a statement at Downing Street on the Southport attacks in which three girls were killed last year, Starmer said: 'We also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom, accessing all manner of material online, desperate for notoriety, sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups, but fixated on that ext
  
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• Keir Starmer vows to change terror laws to deal with lone killers

  21-01-2025 11:24
  
  PM defends decision not to disclose Southport killer’s violent history and promises to tackle ‘new threat’ in UKUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street will change the laws to ensure that lone killers with “extreme individualised violence” are charged with terrorism, Keir Starmer has said, defending his decision not to disclose the Southport killer’s violent history.The prime minister said there would be a public inquiry into the state failure th
  
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• Southport murderer bought weapons and ricin-making equipment two years before attack

  21-01-2025 10:15
  
  Axel Rudakubana bought items on Amazon to make lethal poison three years after he came to attention of authoritiesWarning: contains descriptions of violence that readers may find upsettingUK politics live – latest updatesThe Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana, bought a cache of deadly weapons, including equipment to make the lethal poison ricin, on Amazon at least two years before he murdered three young girls last summer, it can be revealed.The “extremely violent” 18-year-old b
  
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