The inquiry, held over nine weeks at Liverpool Town Hall last year, heard from more than 100 witnesses, including 67 who gave live evidence.
It covered topics including Rudakubana’s involvement with health services, social care and education, and the three referrals to anti-terror programme Prevent which were made, and closed, before he carried out the attack.
Solicitor Nicola Brook from Broudie Jackson Canter, who represent Leanne Lucas, John Hayes and another adult survivor, Heidi Liddle, said:
double quotation markSitting through the extensive list of failings exposed during the first phase of the inquiry provoked an understandably complex mix of emotions for our clients, who battle the daily consequences of survivors’ guilt.
We hope the report will expose every entity that failed to act in time to prevent this catastrophic attack, and any agencies that are found to be at fault are committed to not just learning lessons but demonstrating, publicly, that they are committed to taking every step to prevent such an atrocity from happening again.
We cannot look back on this inquiry in years to come and summarise it as another navel-gazing exercise for the government.
double quotation markThere is no regulatory mechanism to ensure that recommendations are properly considered and acted upon at the end of an inquiry, which is why we are strongly urging the chair to implement a process to monitor the progress of all recommendations and provide evidence to support them, as happened at the Manchester Arena Inquiry.
Since that harrowing day, our clients’ thoughts have remained with the bereaved and will remain so today.
