Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishA public inquiry into the Southport murders will be led by a former judge who sentenced killer cop Wayne Couzens.Sir Adrian Fulford also advised the International Criminal Court (ICC) last year over its controversial decision to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Sir Adrian will begin work immediately on the Southport inquiry, which will seek to draw up a ‘definitive account of the events leading up to the 2024 attack’.Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were fatally stabbed at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club last July.The case sparked riots across the UK.Alex Rudakubana, then 18, who was born in Cardiff, was jailed for life to serve a minimum of 52 years in January for the murders and the attempted murder of 10 others, including eight children.The Home Secretary said: ‘The brutal murder of three young girls, Bebe, Elsie and Alice, in Southport was an unimaginable tragedy – we owe it to their families, and all those affected on that terrible day to quickly understand what went wrong, answer difficult questions and do everything in our power to prevent something like this from happening again.‘The Southport Inquiry will provide insights into any failings that allowed a young man with a previous history of violence, to commit this horrendous attack. Alex Rudakubana, then 18, was jailed for life to serve a minimum of 52 years for three murders and the attempted murder of 10 others, including eight children, at Southport last summer Sir Adrian Fulford is a retired Lord Justice of Appeal and was a judge at the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2012‘Sir Adrian Fulford will bring a wealth of legal and criminal justice expertise to this role, and I am pleased he has agreed to chair the inquiry.’Sir Adrian is a retired Lord Justice of Appeal and was an ICC judge from 2003 to 2012. Former Metropolitan Police constable Wayne Couzens received a whole life tariff for the rape and murder of Sarah EverardLast year he sat on a panel which acted as an ‘additional safeguard’ in the ICC’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Mr Netanyahu over alleged war crimes during the conflict with Hamas. Sarah Everard went missing in March 2021 after being abducted, raped and murdered by Couzens, in a case that shocked the nationThe panel was convened to ‘support the evidence review and legal analysis in relation to these arrest warrant applications’, said the ICC when it issued its decision last May.At the time then US president Joe Biden described the move as ‘outrageous’. Southport victims Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar, left to rightSir Adrian also sentenced the serving Metropolitan Police officer who raped and murdered 33-year-old marketing executive Sarah Everard in March 2021.Couzens, a police constable, was handed a rare whole life tariff – meaning he will have no chance of parole – by Sir Adrian at the Old Bailey six months later. The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured, for alleged war crimes in Gaza last yearThe Home Secretary confirmed the Southport inquiry in January.A separate review has already found serious failings in the way the authorities handled Rudakubana.His file in the flagship Prevent counter-terrorism programme was closed ‘prematurely’ after he was referred three times for an interest in knives and mass atrocities between 2019 and 2021, the review found.Prevent had even repeatedly misspelt Rudakubana’s surname in its database, which may have hampered its assessment of the threat he posed.A later phase of the inquiry will examine the ‘wider issues of children and young people being drawn into extreme violence’, a Home Office spokesman said.Bereaved families and victims of the Southport attack were consulted on Sir Adrian’s appointment, they added.’The inquiry will be statutory,’ the spokesman went on.’This follows representations made by families and victims of the attack and means the inquiry has all the necessary legal powers to receive evidence and hear witness testimony effectively.’Last month he head of the Prevent programme, Michael Stewart, said he will leave his role after it was found the scheme had failed to stop Rudakubana.
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