Keir Starmer and the police were guilty of a “gigantic cover up” over the Southport murders, Nigel Farage has said, after Axel Rudakubana unexpectedly pleaded guilty today. The Telegraph has more.
After Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murder of three young girls and a terrorist offence on the first day of his trial, the Reform UK leader said the Government had behaved “abominably” from day one.
Mr Farage was prevented from asking questions in Parliament about the background of Rudakubana and whether he was known to the authorities, and said the riots that followed the murders were caused by the withholding of information from the public, rather than the stabbings themselves.
Speaking from Washington D.C., where he is attending the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Mr Farage told the Telegraph that he had been told shortly after the murders that Rudakubana had been expelled from school for possessing a knife at the age of 13.