The FBI is aiding UK police in the Axel Rudakubana case, who murdered three girls in Southport. Investigators seek his deleted search history.
The FBI and Justice Department will help UK police with the case. The victims’ families are devastated, and the whole community is also hurting.
Prosecutors appreciate the US support and value the help from the FBI. Investigators want the killer’s deleted searches, hoping to get data from Google and Microsoft.
Police searched Rudakubana’s home in Banks, Lancashire. He killed Bebe King, Elsie Stancombe, and Alice Aguiar in the stabbings that occurred at the Southport dance class.
The killer cleared his internet history before going to the class. Only one search remained on social media, involving a bishop’s stabbing.
Detectives need Microsoft and Google data, as Microsoft owns Bing and Google owns Chrome. Police want to know his searches from months before.
An officer said getting the data is ongoing and could take years to receive. Terror attack status would make it faster, but this case is not classified as terror.
The officer stated ideology was absent, so he could not use terror laws. The case falls under major crime, which makes getting data slower, and the data process might take years.