‘My son was radicalised online when he was 14. I was too scared to tell the police’

Teona Gherasim

As a new report into the Southport tragedy shows that the killer’s parents bear considerable blame for the horrific events, Radhika Sanghani hears from another mother about the agonising experience of realising her teenage son had been radicalised on the internet A xel Rudakubana was 17 when he murdered three young girls in Southport back in July 2024. The horrific attack came after years of Rudakubana watching extreme and violent content online, without any supervision. A new report from the