Former victims’ commissioner Vera Baird says disciplinary action is essential to ensure people are held accountable
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Families in Southport cannot be sure that officials who made “catastrophic” errors before the murder of three girls are not still making the same mistakes, a former victims’ commissioner has said.
Vera Baird KC said all those who failed to properly monitor the killer, Axel Rudakubana, should be held “personally accountable” and that authorities must not “shrug it off” with an apology.
“It really is time for personal accountability,” she said. “We have tragic failures many times followed by public inquiries but nobody actually has to stop doing what they’re doing badly. I do not see why that should be the case.”
