On the second referral in February 2021, the decision not to place Rudakubana into Channel is made on "minimal information", not speaking directly to the person who reported the concerns, nor Rudakubana's parents, nor checking internet searches at the school.
The report says a number of factors pointed to "his vulnerability of being drawn to terrorism", such as researching school shootings, talking about stabbing people, and stating the terrorist attack on 'MEN' was a good thing - this probably a reference to the Manchester Arena attack.
There were three chances to act, which certainly cumulatively, but even individually, should have seen Rudakubana placed in a system designed to de-radicalise him, even if his ideology was poorly formed and hard to define.
Today's report for the government suggests, even in his first referral to Prevent, enough was known to put Rudakubana into the Channel programme.
Instead, in December 2019, the assessor decided Rudakubana had "no ideological driver" beyond "a potential obsession with mass violence" and so placed him in a category called Mixed, Unclear or Unstable (MUU) which by its very name shows that they are unable to conclude whether he is dangerous or not.
