Southport residents tell of inquiry 'frustration'

People living in Southport have expressed their dismay after the public inquiry into the 2024 dance class knife killings found it could and should have been prevented. The inquiry found that the parents of killer Axel Rudakubana failed in their "moral duty" to report his alarming behaviour, while various agencies repeatedly passed the buck around each other instead of taking responsibility for the risk he posed. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine were murdered at the Hart Space dance studio by Rudakubana. One Southport resident, 33-year-old Megan Pennington, said: "There's not a day where I don't wake up and think, 'oh, how things could have been so, so different'." Megan told the BBC her auntie was a North West Ambulance Service paramedic who attended the horrific aftermath of the attack on 29 July 2024. She said her relative was one of the first responders who tried to save Alice, who was able to escape the building despite having already been fatally wounded. "Obviously she's still struggling massively, so I think it's always with us as well," Megan said. "I haven't really got the words because it just frustrates me and it really, really u