
‘It’s not what Southport is’: how a deadly attack changed a town … and a country
Ripples from Axel Rudakubana’s killing of three girls spread wide and deep, from the personal to the political “Southport is a quiet, kind place in which nothing ever happens,” said the Rev Thomas Carter, the morning after it happened. “People are struggling to understand it.” It wasn’t just Southport; the whole country struggled to process…