The chief executive of Lancashire CC has apologised for the authority's role in the systemic failings that preceded the Southport knife attack, after a public inquiry identified multiple failures by agencies involved with the attacker, Axel Rudakubana.
The Southport Inquiry's report found a ‘fundamental failure' by any organisation or multi-agency arrangement to ‘take ownership' of the risk Rudakubana posed before the 2024 attack, in which three young girls were killed.
