known to a range of local agencies due to anxiety, social isolation and challenging behaviour.
In October, excluded from school after telling Childline that he was being racially bullied and was bringing a knife into school to protect himself.
In December, after his exclusion, he returns to the school and assaults someone with a hockey stick, the intended target being a former bully or someone he had a grievance with, it is understood.
He receives a youth justice referral order for the assault – a measure where juveniles who plead guilty to their first offence are placed under supervision to try to stop them re-offending – and completes this in 2021.
motive for killing three young girls in Southport is hard to understand, the judge who jailed him for at least 52 years said – but the below timeline of events gives some context for the murders.