The guilty plea by monster Axel Rudakabana short-circuited a full trial in which all the evidence of what happened that horrific day in Liverpool would have been made public. No doubt the British establishment breathed a collective sigh of relief that their dirty laundry in this case would stay un-aired. Except that the Starmer government, amazingly, ordered a public inquiry.
And, day by day, the dirty secrets and jaw-dropping failures of the British establishment are being brought to light. Supposed ‘anti-terrorist’ group Prevent repeatedly refused to investigate Rudakabana’s case. This, despite three separate referrals warning that the African teenager was a grave threat.
People who had to deal with the sinister thug knew perfectly well how it was all going to end – and no one in power listened to them.
Joanne Hodson is the headteacher of Acorns School in Lancashire, a specialist school solely for children who have been permanently excluded from mainstream education. Hodson encountered Rudakabana in 2019, when he was just 13 and already obsessed with knives. Hodson is highly-experienced with difficult or even dangerous children.
She recognised what Rudakabana was, instantly. Especially when she asked him why he had taken a knife to his previous school.
According to Hodson, ‘he looked me in the eyes and said “to use it”, and he looked at me directly when he said it and I believed him’.
Hodson also encountered Rudakabana’s elusive parents. The parents who are almost completely absent from any official records or online presence.
Rudakubana’s parents were also present at that meeting, and Hodson noted that they ‘completely accepted what he’d said without flinching’ at their son’s remark. The headteacher said that the boy’s parents believed he was a ‘good boy’ and that his behaviour was a result of him being bullied. Rudakubana’s father even said that at Acorns the boy was being bullied ‘like the boy in the other school’.
He wuz a good boy an’ dindu nuffin’. In fact, the father accused the school of “blaming the victim”. You can’t make this stuff up.
At other times, though, the parents weren’t quite so sanguine. In fact, as another headteacher has testified, they went to great lengths to shield their deranged son from scrutiny.
Lucy McLoughlin, headteacher of specialist autistic school Presfield High, said […] Ms McLoughlin said she had carried out a number of visits but had been told she could not see Rudakubana by his mother, Laetitia Muzayire.
“AR’s mother would say ‘not today’ and push us away from that,” she said.
“Sometimes there was no answer at the door.
“One time I managed to get into the lounge and AR refused to come down and refused to be seen. There was no way to see him.”
Another time, the father warned outright that the teenager would become violent if asked to come out of his room and speak to the teacher.
In reality, Rudakubana was clearly deeply paranoid. In one incident at Acorns he claimed to have been bullied by another boy who merely ‘told him to put his apron on’. Hodson was ‘very confident’ that Rudakubana was not being bullied, and clearly concerned that his parents would not challenge their son’s interpretation of events.
If the parents were bad enough, British officialdom was even worse. Resorting to the same playbook that allowed Pakistani Muslim men to rape white British girls with impunity for decades, public health bureaucrats accused Hodson of ‘racism’ when she tried to warn them.
Hodson prepared an education plan for Rudakubana in which she described him as ‘sinister’ and ‘cold and calculating’. An unnamed mental health worker challenged this, accusing Hodson of racially profiling ‘a black boy with a knife’.
Well, yes. Ask Harvey Willgoose’s parents if they’d have preferred that authorities racially profiled Mohammed Umar Khan, 15, who stabbed their son to death earlier this year.
How many crimes, even killings, might be avoided if our culture encouraged professionals to see the world as it is, not as utopians wish it were? It is reminiscent of the Muslim child rape gangs, whose crimes were hidden or ignored for decades because people did not want to face the truth, lest reality ‘stir up community tensions’.
Does this culture of denial still exist?
Of course it does. As professionals like Hodson realise, a ‘racism’ accusation, however unfounded, is career ending.
The headteacher told the inquiry that the accusations ‘shut her up’ and ‘closed her down professionally’. Hodson agreed to remove those remarks from the plan, despite what she described as a ‘visceral sense of dread’ that Rudakubana was ‘building up to something’ and that she feared the boy would bring a knife to Acorns.
This is the sinister power of equality doctrine. Even highly experienced professionals feel cowed, doubt their own professional judgment and soften their language.
And three little girls died and nine other people were critically injured.
But at least nobody had to worry about ‘racism’.
