Southport and Sir David Amess murders ‘linked by failings’

She told the BBC: “It’s happening time and time again, we’ve got the London bridge attacks, the Streatham attacks, the friends who were attacked in a [Reading] park, the detonation of a device on the Tube, these are not one-off attacks.

“So far, the institutions have just managed to skirt around their failings.

“Keir Starmer said himself that he is not going to allow for institutions to deflect their responsibilities for their failures in these horrific murders.

“That’s exactly what I have been saying has been happening, so we will hold him accountable and make sure he follows through on that promise.”

She said she hoped the Southport families would one day be able to separate the girls’ lives from their deaths – as she tried to do with her father.

“I won’t let my dad’s life and legacy be defined by that one act of evil.

“Getting answers and getting accountability for all of the people the Prevent system has failed will go a long way in helping them [Southport families] heal and help them disassociate those darling girls lives’ with what happened to them at the end.”