Police charge 17-year-old male with three counts of murder over Southport stabbings

Police charge 17-year-old male with three counts of murder over Southport stabbings

In connection with the Southport stabbing, authorities said a 17-year-old has been charged with three murders and

ten attempted murders.

Social media was used to propagate false information that the stabbing suspect was a radical Islamist immigrant.

This led to suspected members of a right-wing anti-Islam and anti-immigration group inciting violence.

The suspect was born in Britain, according to police, and the stabbing had nothing to do with terrorism.

As rioters and police clashed near London’s Downing Street, British police said they have charged a 17-year-old with

murder in connection with a stabbing incident that killed three children in Southport.

The adolescent, who has not been identified due to his age, was charged with three murders and ten attempted

murders in connection with the attack, according to the Merseyside Police Department.

Later on Thursday, he is scheduled to appear in court.

It comes as thousands of people gathered near the prime minister’s home, yelling English football chants and

phrases like “stop the boats,” “save our kids,” and “we want our country back.”

The rioters, who had earlier thrown flares and smoke canisters at Downing Street, were surrounded by a huge

contingent of police officers wearing helmets.

According to London’s Metropolitan Police force, over 100 persons were taken into custody for charges such as

assault on an emergency worker and violent disorder.

Three girls between the ages of six and nine were slain in Monday’s attack in the typically peaceful town in north-

west England, and eight other youngsters were stabbed.

Two adults who attempted to shield them were among the five who were still in severe condition at the hospital.

The alleged stabbing was carried out by the 17-year-old at a “Taylor Swift yoga and dance workshop” for kids ages six

to eleven during summer vacation.

Police are legally limited in the information they can share on the suspected adolescent attacker, but they have

dispelled rumours about his origins by stating that the incident had nothing to do with terrorism and that he was

born in Britain.

Social media misinformation, however, has asserted that the suspect in the mass stabbing is a radical Islamist

immigrant.

Police say the demonstrators were members of the far-right English Defence League.

‘Thugs from out of town’

Police clashed with suspected members of a right-wing anti-Islam and anti-immigration group outside a Southport

mosque on Tuesday, the first night of disturbances after the stabbing.

Protesters threw bricks, bottles, and fireworks at police personnel and vehicles parked at the town’s mosque, while

police vans were set on fire.

53 cops were injured, according to the police, and eight of them were hospitalised for severe injuries such fractures

and head traumas. Also injured were three police dogs.

Four men between the ages of 31 and 39 have been taken into custody, and authorities are looking for further suspects.

Serena Kennedy, the chief constable of Merseyside Police, expressed her anger and horror at the brutality.

“They were there purely for hooliganism and thuggery in terms of bringing that level of violence and that behaviour

on to the streets of Southport and that is not what this community is about,” she said.

The majority of those involved in the violence, according to politicians and police, were not locals, and the

altercations took away from a sizable vigil honouring the young victims that drew thousands of people.

The “violent thugs from out town” would “feel the full force of the law,” according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Bricks from shattered buildings, shattered bottles, and big trash cans and their contents were scattered over the

streets of Southport on Wednesday.

Police cars that had been set on fire during the fighting the previous evening were visible on the charred tarmac.

According to neighbourhood resident David Burgess, “what I saw last night was absolutely appalling,” he told Sky

News.

According to the police, they were prepared for more conflict.

“Just to reassure the communities of Southport, who I am sure are really worried about ‘are we going to see this

again tonight?’ — we are absolutely planning for this evening and for the weekend ahead,” the chief of police told

reporters.

In the meantime, Taylor Swift supporters have collected almost 270,000 British pounds ($531,000) to support the

hospital where some of the children were receiving treatment as well as the relatives of the victims.

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