Southport | 9 year old girl confirmed as third victim

[BlueFurn]

News released. No traffic, no pedestrians for about 45 minutes…
When I think of all the times I dropped my daughter off at dance school and picked her up again…
Poor kids, families and the family of the bugger that did it..
Shite day.

 

[bert38]

But I thought it wasn't terror related so no need for Counter Terrorism.........
Convenient the person was 17 so they cannot release his name.

Awaiting Yvette's statement blaming the security of the venue.

Police ‘not treating as terrorism at this stage’

Perfectly normal in these types of incidents that local homicide work closely with special branch and counter terrorism.

A highly complex and developing investigation that might lead to him being further arrested under TACT. He’s been arrested on susp of murder-TACT gives more powers, that’s it.

 

[Eccles Blue]

In the Airport thread there was a lot of speculation and confusion. A lot of backtracking ensued.
Is the same happening here?
We really need to wait until the facts come out rather than speculation. IMHO.

 

[I'm Blue]

This country is fucked and is only gonna get worse.
RIP to the two KIDS that have died and a speedy recovery to those injured.
Sickening!

 

[hilts]

We hear news, sometimes we don’t have good things to say about reporters but at the end of the day they are human as well. Watching poor Roger Johnson on NW Tonight get emotional and his voice breaking as he made the announcement of the deaths of these children brings it home to you.
Condolences to those parents. RIP little ones. God Bless.

Don't know how they do it, not a chance I could.

 

[babyape]

People need to let the police get on with it.

I cannot impress on people enough how impressive homicide and counter terrorism officers are.

I get people’s anger but especially if as reported he’s a juvenile, information will be limited.

My thoughts are with the poor children, their families and the adults that have been seriously injured. And also for the first responders; I can only imagine what they witnessed.

This is one of the worst crimes in my lifetime. Truly horrific.

Well said. Truly heartbreaking.

Unfortunately, and sadly, predictably, a lot of accusations being lobbed about in here when little or no information has been released. Backed up by, ‘according to reports I’ve read’

Some crank on Twitter isn’t ‘reports’

 

[Toffeedude]

Those poor children. Bless them, beautiful angels.

 

[blueinsa]

Utterly speechless at the depravity some of us so called human beings are capable of.

Thoughts are very much with those poor victims and their families.

 

[toffee balls]

Utterly speechless at the depravity some of us so called human beings are capable of.

Thoughts are very much with those poor victims and their families.

Sky News just said the room contained some of the community’s most vulnerable.

Awful day .

 

[BigJoe#1]

Utterly speechless at the depravity some of us so called human beings are capable of.

Thoughts are very much with those poor victims and their families.

We need to reconsider and bring back the death sentence. There is no place in our society for any people who are capable of committing this type of crime.

 

[bert38]

Sky News just said the room contained some of the community’s most vulnerable.

Awful day .

Good God. Unbearable.

 

[JWCH-99]

Incredibly sad news and thoughts can only be with those directly affected by the actions of one cowardly and deplorable man. It is a huge concern for me as a young adult. This is the country I was born and raised in and has given me a fantastic education and childhood. But, I have been nervous around city centres for a while now. Not to an extreme level where I won’t go, but to a level where I am constantly conscious of risk. But, with this attack it just demonstrates and reminds that it is not only the centres and more dangerous areas where you have to be wary, but in a nice, quiet town and a supposed safe and happy environment for young kids.

I travel a lot with my job and I see some of the most deprived and frankly sad/depressing areas in the UK and I must say that I am seriously considering whether this country is a place that I want to buy my first home and raise a family in. Every country has issues and I know relative to some places it is incomparable, but it certainly does not feel like a thriving country; whether that be at government level, social level or economic level. Worrying times. Maybe it is unrealistic to think anywhere else is different.

 

[bumbleblue]

Fucking scumbag don’t care who he is, where he’s from or how old he is he’s an amoral fucking ****.

 

[melrose40yarder]

Honestly you think someone who carries out an act like that is arsed about the prison sentence or how tough it is? russia has horrific prisons in Siberia it doesn't stop fuck all.

No but it might make the more sane think.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I’m in my 50s and sent my two kids to nursery and whatnot

They’re in their 20s now but I don’t stop worrying about them.

You send kids to places like that so you can go and work and provide for them. I’m not arsed who or where from the attacker is from now. It is just horrendous.

I’m on the red wine because there the coping mechanism. Doors locked and I know where those two adult kids of mine are.

My thoughts are with everyone concerned with this today. They will be for the foreseeable.

 

[Theblueguy]

Just waiting for unsubstantiated rumours about a person from a shelter in Cardiff to attract media comment...

My thoughts are with the victims and their families

The facts will come out... @bert38 said so...

LOL
Just like the facts have come out about the soldier that was stabbed at the barracks?
Do a google. News articles are all over 4 days old and plastered with the same ''not thought to be terror related'' comments all over them.

And the attackers in Manchester Airport still haven't been arrested or charged? And if that CCTV footage wasn't leaked then we'd all still be non the wiser being pushed the "police brutality" line.

 

[hertsblue]

Lots of reports breaking all over Twitter saying the same:
The police will not give his name in their recent update, it is being reported it is 17 year old Ali Al-Shakati.

Shakati was on MI6 watch list & was known to Liverpool mental health services. He was an asylum seeker who came to UK by boat last year.


No idea why the police/media keep saying non terrorism related when its clear as day it is. Same as the recent Soldier stabbing

 

[I'm Blue]

We need to reconsider and bring back the death sentence. There is no place in our society for any people who are capable of committing this type of crime.

They should be beaten to death by the families/communities.
Pieces of shit like this don't deserve to be breathing and should leave this earth in the most painful way imaginable.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

No but it might make the more sane think.

People that stab a group of kids aren't usually the more sane.

 

[M18CTID]

Well avoided.

I will tell you now it will be a terrorist attack. Fact. It will be out within days. Of am wrong I will apologise, but I won’t be wrong. I will not be wrong.

Like the broken nose of the officer was an accident. Utter bullshit.

What about the wider issue of 24 terror deaths and countless injuries in the north west in the past few years?

Stop dancing around with bullshit and protect our kids.

Have you read the statement from Merseyside Police? What part of “Born in Cardiff” don’t you get?

https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2024/july/statement-from-chief-constable-serena-kennedy-following-major-incident-in-southport/

Now it could be that Merseyside Police are wrong/are lying about that but I very much doubt they’d be so fucking stupid as to do that.