Are Axel Rudakubana’s parents responsible for his terrible crime? It’s a question many families will fear to answer | Gaby Hinsliff

Lives could have been saved, had some of the adults involved acted differently. To prevent another Southport, parents must feel able to seek help It was shortly before Axel Rudakubana left the house that his mother is thought to have found the discarded packaging for a knife. His parents already knew that their 17-year-old son was ordering weapons by post; that he was watching graphic online footage of atrocities and had previously attacked a boy against whom he had a grievance. At home, his ...

By Gaby Hinsliff