The taxi driver who drove Axel Rudakubana to the children's dance class where he carried out the Southport knife attack waited 50 minutes before calling the police, an inquiry has heard.
Gary Poland, who picked Rudakubana up from his home in Banks, Lancashire, took nearly an hour to call 999 despite hearing children scream and seeing them fleeing the massacre in his rearview mirror as he drove away.
When the taxi driver did eventually call 999, he was heard telling the operator: 'I heard screaming, proper screaming.'
Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were murdered by Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed class at the Hart Space on July 29 last year.
Rudakubana, who also attempted to murder 10 others in a sickening knife rampage, was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January.
