A review into counter-terrorism programme Prevent has said there was sufficient evidence to consider Axel Rudakubana a terror threat.

Rudakubana was referred to the counter terrorism-led scheme on three occasions in the years before he murdered Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar on July 29 last year.

The report, published today, concluded counter-terrorism officers were wrong to not escalate his case as a potential terror threat.

It also found there was enough evidence for Prevent officers to refer Rudakubana to the next stage of the scheme, called Channel, which aims to divert individuals from being radicalised.

Dan Jarvis spoke about Axel Rudakubana

Axel Rudakubana had multiple interactions with Prevent

Security minister Dan Jarvis told the Commons: "The perpetrator was referred to Prevent three times between December 2019 when he was aged 13 and April 2021 when he was 14. Those referrals were made by his schools.

“The first referral reported concerns about him carrying a knife and searching for school shootings on the internet. The second referral was focused on his online activity relating to Libya and Gaddafi. His third referral was for searching for London bombings, the IRA and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

“On each of these occasions, the decision at the time was that the perpetrator should not progress to the channel multi-agency process. But the Prevent learning review found that there was sufficient risk for the perpetrator to have been managed through Prevent.

“It found that the referral was closed prematurely, and there was sufficient concern to keep the case active while further information was collected."