Teenager Axel Rudakubana had attacked a pupil with a hockey stick, used school computers to look up the London Bridge terror outrage and carried a knife on a bus and into class before he carried out ...

Social media companies could have worked with authorities to prevent misinformation as rioting broke out in the wake of Axel Rudakubana’s horrific attack, the Merseyside Police chief has said.

Calogero Ricotta, 64, denies the murders of his 54-year-old wife Maria Nugara and her 29-year-old son Giuseppe Morreale.

A dance teacher injured in the Southport attack has said Axel Rudakubana’s victims have scars “we cannot unsee”, as survivors gave their harrowing accounts of the day.

Elsie’s mother, Jenny Stancombe, had her statement read to the court by prosecutor Deanna Heer KC, in which she described the 18-year-old killer as “cruel and pure evil” and said his attack was “the ...