Overview
- Dion Rudakubana submitted a statement and, through counsel, spoke publicly for the first time urging the inquiry to examine whether more could have been done by public bodies.
- The hearings revisited years of warning signs, including a 2019 school expulsion for bringing knives, multiple Prevent referrals, a 2022 knife incident on a bus, and more than a dozen online weapons orders.
- Testimony addressed access to weapons in the family home, items hidden by parents, the father pleading with a taxi driver over fears his son was armed, and victims’ lawyers questioning parental responsibility.
- The inquiry heard mental health staff assessed him on July 23, 2024 and discharged him six days before the attack, with the assessment’s findings still undisclosed.
- Reports referenced extremist material among his possessions, while police maintain the killings are not officially classified as ideologically motivated.