Report has been released and the main conclusion is that both the authorities and the killers family could have, and should have, prevented the attacks.
There were multiple opportunities, all of which were not only missed but frequently deliberately not acted upon.
Reasons for this include:
His parents didnt want him to be taken away from them, despite him frequently being violent towards them and others.
He wasnt sectioned because he was black and 'too many young black men are already locked away'.
He wasnt arrested on multiple occasions (at least 10) for taking a knife in to a school because police didnt want to 'criminalise a child'.
His external violent threats werent dealt with by the local council because they were more concerned with the threat he posed to himself.
Multiple agencies were involved in monitoring him but none acted because they all assumed someone else would. They didnt bother to communicate with one another. They didnt transfer information. They repeatedly lost vital information.
Three children died (eight others were injured and two adults) because our system is so obsessed with wanting to protect dangerous individuals/criminals instead of the innocents around them. Quite frankly this crap needs to stop.
If theyre a danger, lock them away. Simple. That way they cannot harm anyone other than themselves and if they want to harm themselves then so be it.
No doubt we'll get the usual bull crap 'lessons will be learned' and even though individual failures have been noted you can guarantee that no further prosecutions or even firings will take place.
/rant.
There were multiple opportunities, all of which were not only missed but frequently deliberately not acted upon.
Reasons for this include:
His parents didnt want him to be taken away from them, despite him frequently being violent towards them and others.
He wasnt sectioned because he was black and 'too many young black men are already locked away'.
He wasnt arrested on multiple occasions (at least 10) for taking a knife in to a school because police didnt want to 'criminalise a child'.
His external violent threats werent dealt with by the local council because they were more concerned with the threat he posed to himself.
Multiple agencies were involved in monitoring him but none acted because they all assumed someone else would. They didnt bother to communicate with one another. They didnt transfer information. They repeatedly lost vital information.
Three children died (eight others were injured and two adults) because our system is so obsessed with wanting to protect dangerous individuals/criminals instead of the innocents around them. Quite frankly this crap needs to stop.
If theyre a danger, lock them away. Simple. That way they cannot harm anyone other than themselves and if they want to harm themselves then so be it.
No doubt we'll get the usual bull crap 'lessons will be learned' and even though individual failures have been noted you can guarantee that no further prosecutions or even firings will take place.
/rant.
