Officials who made errors before Southport murders ‘may still be making same mistakes’

Former victims’ commissioner Vera Baird says disciplinary action is essential to ensure people are held accountable • UK politics live – latest updates Families in Southport cannot be sure that officials who made “catastrophic” errors before the murder of three girls are not still making the same mistakes, a former victims’ commissioner has said. Vera Baird KC said all those who failed to properly monitor the killer, Axel Rudakubana, should be held “personally accountable” and that authoritie...

By Josh Halliday North of England editor