Welcome to the trial podcast, the Dile Podcasts.

I'm Caroline Cheatham and I'm Liz Hall.

We'll be back in a second. On the 29th of July

On the 29th of July, 2024, there was an attack in Southport of unparalleled cruelty. Nothing matching the extreme and very particular depravity of this event has previously occurred in the United Kingdom,

certainly in modern times. What happened on that terrible day was not to use the familiar phrase,

a bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky.

One of the most striking conclusions from this inquiries's extensive investigation is the

sheer number of the missed opportunities over many years to intervene meaningfully, which directly contributed to the failure to avert

this disaster. Numerous systems that should have provided oversight, assessment and protection

were ineffective or inadequately used. Some failed outright. The consequences, as it does not need for me to say,

were catastrophic. Okay, so welcome back to the podcast. The big story around this week, of course,

is the findings of the inquiry that's been taking place about what happened

in Southport. And the voice you heard there is Sir Adrian at Fulford. He's been the chair at this

inquiry. And those were just a few of his findings. Liz and I have spent a few days digesting

the 700-odd page report that he put out on Monday morning.

And that's why we wanted to digest it, read it, take in exactly what he's had to say about

what happened in Southport on July the 29th, 2024.

We should say, of course, that we covered this on our series

Dance School Murders when Axel Ruder Cabana pleaded guilty in court. But just for people

who have not followed that series, Liz, and not followed exactly what happened, I suppose

remind people what happened that day. Yeah, Caroline, so this obviously

was the terrible, terrible murders of BB King, Elsie Dot Stankham and Alice de Silva Aguilla.

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