That picture of the Southport killer

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That has been circulating today.

Remember that sweet boy that was in all the reports at the time? The one who looked about nine?

Can anyone think of any other serious criminal who has pictures of them as a child out in the press?

@TooBigForMyBoots I said many not all....

Being Autistic is not an illness. Autistic people I understand have greater risk of co morbid conditions. Being Autistic ( a huge spectrum) might mean some ( dependant upon level of vulnerability) will be more vulnerable to radicalisation ( in any form, from any ideology). If you add in environmental factors which can make life significantly harder and more traumatic for many Autistic individuals, then you might have a combination of factors that might lead to bad outcomes. Like any person really; a combined of factors.

I need more facts on this case. I don't believe all Autistic people are nuts and killers. Being called' Autistic ' is now appearing way too simplistic to categorise people who are incredibly diverse. I've been part of threads where we are discuss this and many agree that we just can't define an individual adequately in any way in terms of who they are,needs and vulnerability simply by using the terms Autistic, Level 1, 2 or 3.

A christian might be inclined to fess up…

His father knew EXACTLY what his son was doing and fully enabled it! He should be done for assisted murder IMO.

Anyone who uses 🤡 in their responses is probably not worth your time or energy @PeppyGreenFinch

I doubt he’ll even go to prison, it will be a mental health hotel all the way 👍

Of course. But SM posters prefer to make up diagnoses and speculate on his mh

I know, but I’m finding their flapping amusing!

He was reported to the government’s
counter terrorism ‘Prevent’ programme three times.

So they certainly knew things about him, but they weren’t acted upon.

Nobody should have access to that stuff. Just today I've seen many, many posts on Twitter referring to Palestinians/Israelis (depending on whose side the poster is on) as rats who should be exterminated - a shit load of propaganda from both the IDF and Hamas. People calling for the children of the opposite side to be slaughtered, just wtf?!

The amount of unchecked misogyny online too is shocking - women are constantly subjected to degradation and rape threats, it's rife - I've never known things to be quite so overt and intense as they are right now.

The hatred is palpable - it's no wonder that young minds are being drawn into the chaos. Parents are fighting a losing battle trying to shield their children from it, it's everywhere.

Yes, TwiX is a cesspit. I worry for impressionable young minds being on it.

making up things that haven't been said and breaking the rules of the site

Oh the irony!

The police and counter terrorism police don't think he was an Islamic terrorist.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/20/axel-rudakubana-was-referred-to-counter-extremism-scheme-three-times

You're being very very silly.

Please list what would satisfy you as proof? Because with only screens I can't think of anything that couldn't be fabricated or faked and as such dismissed by you. So what kind of cast iron proof would you accept? Because I don't think there's any.

Absolutely horrified to hear the failures to keep the public safe when there were known risks with him over multiple occasions for years. It all stinks of a cover up. I feel sick for the poor mothers and families who lost their beautiful daughters to this monster

and let’s not get started on the thousands £££ that would have been spent to date on his defence (no doubt legal aid) and now he comes at the final hour and pleads guilty. Wonder what more would have come out at trial.

and his parents are just as culpable

RIP Bebe, Elsie & Alice.

I read in one paper(can't remember source , but I can try and find it) that police was called several times at their home and that he was seen by a police psychiatrist, but didn't engage with them.

It's true I work at a school and they have that in the prevent material. It did make me chuckle.

Cover up of what? How understaffed, underfunded and overstretched ALL our services are? Sure...

So now you’re saying there is no evidence for this allegation ?

You are saying this allegation is baseless.

Same as me. It’s a crock. Made up.

Do you think someone downloading this manual makes them an Islamic terrorist?

Or do you think there might be other reasons that someone might download this manual?

It all stinks of a cover up

Well, there is going to be a public inquiry. So we will find out what was and wasn't covered up.

Becuase police aren’t interested in prosecuting minors for violence or issues within the family, which in certain cases is a good thing. They say it is the remit of social services to provide help to families not the police, which is true, however social services are so stretched they will do nothing unless there is risk to the child themselves from the parents

What’s the statute of limitations for terror offences? Is 9/11 no longer relevant because it happened 24 years ago? The Norway massacre no longer relevant because it happened 13 years ago?

These far right men did all 3 things - downloaded materials, created a weapon of terror and were charged with terror offence of downloading the manual.