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John Coombs's avatar

You've done a great job on this Charlie, amazing work.

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Monkey Brains's avatar

3rd world savages do third world savage acts.... it ain't that complicated

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Beverley Morris-Beadell's avatar

Thank you once again for sitting through this inquiry. I know it must have taken a huge personal cost to sit through that savages trial. I won’t name him, he lost the right to be treated to notoriety when he committed such barbaric atrocious murderers of innocent little girls.

I don’t have much faith in this enquiry coming up with anything positive going forward. We all know the current government doesn’t want openness & honesty we’re Southport is concerned & we all know why that is.

Keep up the good work but also take care of yourself because we need good honest journalism from people like yourself, not the condescending attitudes of the MSM.

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Kinsey Ashton's avatar

Such a fantastic piece, Charlie. I hope you notice this comment .

I was 21 in February 1972. My mother worked at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Her job at that time was to look after Doctors who were staying in a large house owned by the hospital. We had female Indian Doctors come to our house for tea and biscuits and these lovely ladies were always keen to tell me how my mother had made them feel so welcome and helped them in any way she could.I used to buy things they needed as they did not know the area. They always said she was like a “mother” to them and had made the transition of leaving home so much easier.

I think it was on 9 February 1972 she went to work as normal and had gone into the room of Dr Ahmed Alami to take him his morning drink. He lay under the covers with the bed sheets around his head and mumbled for her to put the drink on the bedside table. She carried on with her duties.

The knife and bloody bedsheets he had used to carry out the monstrous attack on the children were found later that day in his wardrobe, in that room that my Mum had been in.

I looked this “incident” up around the time of Southport and was shocked by what I found. This was an Islamist TERROR attack. Of course that word was never used. Alami had a much grander name and was a very high profile son. The mental health card was, however played and I was shocked to find that after securing his freedom he went back to Palestine and wrote books on the subject of Palestine. This blatant terror attack cannot surely have been the only one up to 7/7 ???

Just look up Ahmed Alami, Blackpool Victoria Hospital 1972.

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Ian Munro's avatar

Thanks Charlie.....keep going, the dots will join up eventually and lead to the traitorous enabling idiot!

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Mike Garland's avatar

Fantastic work Charlie

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Sarah's avatar

Great piece Charlie.

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Jane Fudge's avatar

Great work again Charlie 👌

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Helen Whitten's avatar

I read that another teen had been charged with plotting an attack on the Oasis reunion in Cardiff and possibly also local children in a similar attack. We need to understand the influences and silence them.

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George Hamor's avatar

Frightening piece, obviously well researched but I wish Charlie had employed someone to proof read the material before it was published.

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Liz Ryan's avatar

Yes, she really does need a sub-editor. Substack even facilitates this by providing a secret link in the settings so you can share the article on the page with a single person before you press Send.

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Charlie Bentley-Astor's avatar

I'm right here, guys. No need to use the third person...

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Nick Thorne's avatar

Happy to be your (unpaid!) proofreader if you want, Charlie

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Charlie Bentley-Astor's avatar

It's not that people haven't offered (thank you!) I

t's that I am both dyslexic and impatient. I write something of the spur of the moment when the opportunity arises and cannot abide by waiting upon others.

If this were my full time job and I had a regular publishing schedule, I'd consider it.

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Nick Thorne's avatar

Understood.

Correcting that as a quick turnaround example (!): "It's that I am both dyslexic and impatient. I write something on the spur of the moment when the opportunity arises and cannot abide waiting upon others."

Keep up the content, Charlie!

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Charlie Bentley-Astor's avatar

Funny

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John Wood's avatar

"that Axel Rudakubana did not fail to come to the attention of security authorities but had routinely, perhaps even deliberately, dismissed by them."

I think you need a "been" before "dismissed"

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Mandy's avatar

Hi Charlie - Theories should be constructed after observation of the facts. Facts should be gathered to formulate a theory and not device a theory to fit the fact - That is the scientific principle and I'd like to think this inquiry is being conducted in a logical manner such as gathering Facts than formulating a theory!

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5dEdited

There was an caller on LBC who said she was friendly with the father. I think she said they both attended the same evening class. It’s probably still available on YouTube. It was around the time of the trial.

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