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Episode 64: The Southport Inquiry, trauma & system failure

Episode 64: The Southport Inquiry, trauma & system failure

Update: 2025-11-12
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We complete our journey into Axel Rudakubana’s darkness with a look at some of the wealth of information uncovered by the recently-completed first phase of The Southport Inquiry, which has taken place at Liverpool Town Hall.


 


Special attention is given to the testimonies of Gary Poland, the unfortunate taxi driver who delivered Axel to the place of his atrocity, Axel’s brother Dion and their parents Alphonse and Laetitia.


 


The timeline is as imperfect as the system that sought to deal with a severe case of a ‘problem child’, as we jump around key events and try to make sense of a 5-year period in the Rudakubana family’s lives that saw an apparently well-adjusted 12 year old with a passion for acting and Doctor Who transform into a monster (as his father admits he now is).


 


The episode ends with some final thoughts from the Inquiry chairman as we try to build a brighter future


 


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episode links


Liverpool Echo Inquiry updates in full (latest at the top)


https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/live-southport-inquiry-updates-32420881


 


News reports regarding the testimonies of Gary Poland, Dion Rudakubana and Alphonse Rudakubana


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waoIVeV-ZwY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFz7jTQeBbk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqRT1JtTB-Q


 


What is Trauma?


https://psychcentral.com/health/what-is-trauma


 


Axel’s taxi ride, police arrival and arrest


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72kZoJTw5FE&t=6s


 


Craig Houston on the rather strange Axel arrest video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxWO6gH1Tss


 


Police interviews with the child killers of James Bulger


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSq6RPqMrU

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Episode 64: The Southport Inquiry, trauma & system failure

Episode 64: The Southport Inquiry, trauma & system failure

Antony Rotunno