Daniel Sandford

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282 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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Newscast · The "Systemic Failures" Before The Southport Attack · 13 Apr 2026 podcast

The concerns about Akshay Rudakarana's autism meant that people weren't considering, well, he's got autism, they were saying.

But they weren't thinking, well, what risks does he pose, leaving aside the fact he's got autism, which might explain his behaviour and his kind of very impersonal way of talking about the violent attacks that he wants to carry out and things like that.

You can't just say, well, he's got autism, so that's okay.

Because one of the features of people who have this disorder is that they can be quite obsessive.

So it's great if someone obsesses on maths or music or something, they can become geniuses.

But if they obsess on school massacres, that's a big problem.

And I think he felt that it was being used as an explanation for his behaviour rather than people looking beyond that as to what risk he can pose.

I think there's two more steps to this journey.

There's phase two.

Now that he's identified those issues that he wants to go into more depth, the systemic issues, as it were, what will Sir Adrian Fulford conclude at the end of that?

And then the next stage, the critical ones for the family, as Judith says, is will those recommendations come into force quickly and will they be effective?

I think it's just worth adding as well that...

This has been an absolutely devastating report in terms of its criticisms.

It's the widespread nature of its criticisms.

But it's worth remembering that in there, there are amazing examples of people really doing their job

Well, and the Acorn School, the school to which Axel Rudacabana went after he was excluded from Range High School, gets lots and lots of praise for identifying the problems and persistently raising the problems.

Unfortunately for them, they made a mistake about possibly not sharing some browsing history with the police.

So they get a little bit of criticism about that.

But the Acorn School gets...

lots and lots of praise for saying this is a dangerous boy and we need to work out how to handle him and then not paid attention to him and another thing it was just a a PCSO at the at the moment of the attack going in um and the decision being made by the police officers to go in and arrest Axel Rudekabana and a PCSO had been told to stand to guard the door and he

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