'Lessons have to be learned'

SIR David Amess MP was a colleague who was loved and is remembered fondly across both Parliament and his constituency.

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We also remember the three innocent young victims of the Southport attack: Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar. It is clear these victims were failed by the system, as the killers were encountered by the Prevent system, but were not stopped by it.

Prevent’s objective is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Islamists are responsible for 94% of all deaths and around 88% of injuries caused by terrorism since 1999.

Last year, they accounted for 80% of the police’s counter-terror caseload and 75% of MI5’s as well as making up 63% of terrorists in custody.

Despite this, only 1% of the Prevent caseload ings of the report pointing to the failings of Prevent in the Southport case...that referrals to other agencies who could have intervened with the defendant were not followed through with.

“Given the disturbing and violent behaviour exhibited, opportunities to intervene were then lost.

We now turn to the inquiry in establishing the key decisions that were made in this case.