Was the Southport killings a Psyop?

In a word, no! I am horrified to see some people who I otherwise respect pushing the predictable but wearisome narrative that the killings of the little girls in Southport on Monday was an elaborate psyop designed to bring about the circumstances we now see unfolding on our streets. I even saw some people question whether the girls are even dead. This is way too far removed from reality and I don’t go with it. Frankly, it gives conspiracy theories a bad name.

I do believe that 17 year old Axel Rudakubana carried out the vile atrocity which cost Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice Dasilva Aguiar and Bebe King their young lives. Sometimes bad people do bad things and I am NOT going down the rabbit hole that suggests this was all a set up and that the girls may not even be dead. If you are a Christian, you recognise that evil is a very real thing and stalks this earth. In short, shit happens.

Something certainly happened to Rudakubana to make him carry out the killings and I am certain that certain information may be being withheld from us. For example, did he convert to Islam? Was he radicalised and if so, by whom? Had he spoken of the need to carry out killings and had this been reported to any authority at any time? How did he seize on this little summer dance school? What exactly is his Rwandan family background? We all remember that Rwanda saw a genocide in the 1990’s and his family fled at that point and were curiously accepted into the UK for reasons we need to understand.

Where I have some sympathy with the more conspiratorial minded is that everything about this story is odd. We were told that the suspected killer was Welsh, from Cardiff. That was not the full truth as his family have been living in the Southport area for several years. Then we were show images of him aged 10, we were told he sang in the choir and was a shy boy. Then we were told he appeared in a Dr Who publicity trailer. All of this seems bizarre and I wonder about the role the media plays in this event.

However, in the final analysis, three families grieve the loss of their children and others worry if their kids will recover from injuries inflicted by Rudakubana. We do a disservice to them by refusing to accept the reality that they all face. How we then deal with this is a different matter of course and I shall return to that tomorrow!