The suspect in the Southport attack has been identified as 17-year-old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana after a judge at Liverpool Crown Court lifted reporting restrictions.

Photos of the suspect from when he was younger and court sketches have also been released.

In response to the attack and other violent incidents across the country, Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with police chiefs to discuss strategies to address violent disorder, including plans for a new “national capability” to support police forces.

Starmer condemned the violence, attributing it to “far-right hatred,” the BBC has reported.

In Southport, the community continues to mourn the three young victims of the attack—Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven—as more flowers and handwritten tributes are left in their memory.

Written by B.C. Begley