00:00An anti-terror police chief told a public inquiry they never found out the why of Axel Rudicabana's deadly attack in Southport other than his fascination with extreme violence.
00:11Deputy Assistant Commissioner Victoria Evans, a senior national co-coordinator for counter-terrorism policing, told the inquiry it was herald to decide if the attack was a terrorist incident.
00:23But Ms Evans told the inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall the assessment was that Rudicabana was not a terrorist.
00:31Rudicabana killed BB King 6, Elsie Dot Stankham 7 and Alistair Silva Agria 9 and attempted to murder 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on the 29th of July last year.
00:42The inquiry has heard that while Rudicabana, jailed for 52 years before parole can be considered, was not identified as a terrorist or sentenced on that basis, some victims want to know how that conclusion was reached.
00:57Nicholas Moss Casey, counsel to the inquiry, said the police and counter-terror investigation did not declare the incident to be terrorism as there was no evidence Rudicabana carried out the attack to advance a particular cause.
01:10Ms Evans said, there was no evidence found to show or suggest the attack was, as you say, motivated to advance a political, racial, religious or ideological cause.
01:21What I would say is that I completely appreciate for the survivors the communities that doesn't in any way lessen the horror of the attack.
01:30Rudicabana, 17, at the time of the attack, was also convicted of possession of a document likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism.
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