Police locked the long -term legal procedures in the United States to visit the online history of Southport Killer | Southport attack

It can be disclosed that the police could not see what Axel Rudakubana searched online before the "abuse" Southport attack, because they were caught in long US legal procedures to obtain data from Google and Microsoft.

The lack of Internet history may master important clues about why the killer targets young girls, but 10 minutes before he left was deleted by Rudakubana, in a dance class with the theme of Taylor Swift, " Ferny attack ".

Police are worried that it may not be able to see evidence for several years, because they must use the U.S. expert prosecutor where the technology company is located to apply for it.

Detective DCI Jason Pye, who led the Police of Merxedd County, said: "We are currently undergoing this process, but we have been told that it may be a few years."

Browse history is of great significance, because people think that 18 -year -old Rudakubana is looking for in his "plan and premeditated" attack. The other children of the eight girls, and two adults who tried to save them.

Late on Friday, the British government increased pressure on technology companies and demanded that the violent materials found on the Internet that the Southport murderer was immediately deleted.

The Minister of the Interior Yvette Cooper and the technical secretary Peter Kyle expressed depression in a letter, such as the attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel to Marma Mari Emmanuel And "Materials Training Manual for the Jihar's Military Research on Tyrant: Military Research on Al-QAEDA" can still be viewed in the UK.

They said in a letter to the British Google, X, Tiktok and Meta: "We now know that Rudakubana can easily obtain the right to access the document and continue to be available online."

"Easy to access this danger, illegal content is unacceptable ... We once again ask you to quickly delete any illegal materials available on this list, including materials used by Axel Rudakubana."

They added: "This experiment revealed the potential consequences that failed to take action on this content."

A mysterious question is why the teenager specifically aimed at the dance class of young girls, the dance was five miles in his home in Lancashire Banks, Lancashire Bank.

Officials believe that he must have seen the promotional activities, but so far it cannot be proved. A few days after class on July 7, he bought 20 cm (8 inches) kitchen knives used in Amazon attack.

A girl who was stabbed by Rudakubana three times said on Friday: "It is undeniable, there are more questions that we need to answer how we reach this."

They added: "We hope these can be answered at the right time. For our daughter and everyone who was there that day, they deserved at least."

Rudakubana was sentenced to at least 52 years of imprisonment on Thursday-this is the oldest prison term in Britain. Someone told him that he might never be released.

The Mercydide County Police obtained more than 160,000 images, videos and other files from Rudakubana's device, showing the dark obsession with extreme violence and racial extinction.

Pye said that detectives have restored "absolutely nothing" from Google Chrome and Microsoft Bing search. He searched on HP laptop, and he deleted the search before the taxi went to Hart Space for atrocities.

After removing the data, Rudakubana conducted a search again three minutes later. At that time, he browsed the videos of X terrorist stabbing in the Sydney church two months ago.

Pye said that it takes a longer time to obtain data because the police must submit an application in the United States-and because the Southport attack is not considered a terrorism or a serious organizational crime, which is a faster process.

The murder was not announced as terrorism because the police could not find any clear evidence that they were carried out to promote any political, religious or ideological reasons.

Pye said that the Royal Procuratorate (CPS) is using expert prosecutors to apply for data in the United States. He said that it had generated international request letters (ILOR), and then sent it to the US law enforcement (in this case for the Federal Investigation Agency), and then requested data from Google and Microsoft on behalf of Britain.

"According to evidence, our case has always been anti -terrorism. In terms of ideology, there is nothing." He added.

"Therefore, I can't go that road and try to get this information faster. There is a faster process, but because it is not in serious organizational crimes, unfortunately, I can't get it as soon as possible. It is a few years.

Catherine Castaldo, a partner of Reed Smith, said that ILOR is a "appropriate program tool" and requires us to ask for data from the United States. It is handled by the Ministry of Justice. She added: "If Google will voluntarily abide by the data request, the process is usually very fast. If you need to force Google through the order of the court, it will take longer."

According to Google, according to the "US-UK Cloud Act Act Agreement", a way to access data is to apply for so-called overseas production orders through the British court.

Another expert said that due to the potential conflict of national law, the process of obtaining data from abroad may be slow. However, the cloud agreement aims to speed up the process.

Monica Horten, a technical policy consultant, said: "The US-UK Cloud Act Agreement" aims to provide the police with a faster ways in order to obtain electronic evidence from American technology companies in severe and violent crimes. At the same time, provide appropriate guarantee measures.

A spokesman for the Merxidd County Police said: "We have submitted a criminal investigation through the correct channels."

As of June 2024, Google received 12 overseas production orders from the British authorities, equivalent to 0.06 % of the nearly 20,000 data requests in the United Kingdom that year. A report issued by Google shows that at least some of these 20,000 requests (88 %) of these 20,000 requests.

The Google spokesman said: "Our deepest sympathy is all families and individuals who have been affected by this terrible attack. We keep in touch with the Merxedd County Police to support them inquiries about the case."

A Microsoft spokesman said: "This is a tragic case. We express sympathy to the victims, their families, and the affected owners.

"In the case of threatening life, when we receive a request from the law enforcement department through direct channels, we respond in 20 minutes and work together to share the relevant information as soon as possible."