A Lancashire-led probe into the contact between local agencies and Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana will begin next month, the Lancashire Post understands.

Rudakubana, 18, from Lancashire, is facing sentencing after he pleaded guilty to murdering three girls on Monday, on what was due to be the first day of his trial.

Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty on Monday to murdering three girls, 10 attempted murders, producing ricin, possessing terrorist material, and possessing a knife.

A British court sentenced teen Axel Rudakubana to a record 52 years in prison, minus time served, for murdering three young girls in a frenzied stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport in July.

The 18-year-old who murdered three girls at a dance class in Southport last July was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison on Thursday. A life sentence without the possibility of release was not possible because Axel Rudakabana was under the age of consent at the time of the crime,

It will probe the contact between local agencies and the attacker who killed three young girls at a dance class