Nigel Farage has told GB News viewers he feels “vindicated” after facing accusations of spreading misinformation in the wake of the Southport killings.
A terror watchdog has criticised authorities for failing to disclose “basic facts” about attacker Axel Rudakubana, saying it could have led to “dangerous fictions” that could have prejudiced his murder trial.
The day after the Southport killings, Nigel questioned “whether the truth is being withheld from us” and asked whether the suspect was being monitored by the security services.
He claims 18 prominent figures in British politics have made false accusations about his role in the riots that ensued.
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Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation said in his review: “The failure by the authorities to spell out basic and sober facts about the attacker led to the contagious misinformation about a murderous Muslim asylum seeker that stoked the riots.
“It led to dangerous fictions that could have been far more prejudicial to the prosecution of Rudakubana than some of the true facts that were suppressed in the name of contempt of court.”
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In response, Nigel said on GB News: “I say that personally because all I asked, 24 hours after the horrible murders of those innocent little girls was, ‘I don’t think we’re being told the truth’.
“We learned subsequently this man had been known to authorities for many years.
“There are 18 major political, public and media figures who directly accused me of stoking the riots and causing some quite big changes to my life.
“I feel some justification that the independent reviewer of terrorist legislation absolutely backs me up.”
Keir Starmer said the Government refused to divulge information about the attacker as it “ran the risk the trial would collapse”.
The riots in the wake of Rudakubana’s crazed rampage were blamed in part on false claims circulating on social media.
The only information released by police was that Rudakubana was a 17-year-old from Banks in Lancashire who was originally from Cardiff.
Merseyside Police later amended the information to “born in Cardiff”, but continued not to divulge family background details.
The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to the murders of three young girls and the attempted murders of eight other children and was jailed for life in January and ordered to serve a minimum of 52 years.
