Show Notes
A woman has five seconds to decide if the stranger at her door is a parent or something else entirely. What do you choose?
Five Seconds to Decide: Parent or Something Else?
This episode recounts the harrowing events of a summer dance workshop where a quick decision saved lives. It explores the critical moments and the background of a perpetrator who had been on the radar of authorities.
Date: July 29, 2024 Location: 34A Hart Street, Southport Event: Taylor Swift dance workshop Perpetrator: Axel Muganwa Rudakubana Victim: Leanne Lucas (initial encounter)
- Twenty-six children, aged six to eleven, were attending a sold-out Taylor Swift dance workshop. - A young man arrived by taxi, gave a false name, and did not pay the fare. - He was wearing a green hoodie and a surgical mask, and carried a 20-centimetre chef's knife. - Leanne Lucas initially assumed he was there to collect a child when he walked through the unlocked front door. - Axel Muganwa Rudakubana had been referred to the UK's counter-extremism program three times in under two years, but was not accepted each time.
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