Southport Killer Axel Rudakubana Asked Two Archery Retailers If they are deliver crossbows in “Discreet” when just just 15, an inquiry has been toold. The teenager sent an email signed “a” to tactical arche in May 2022, Bradley Sutherland, Director of Its Parent Company, Said. Rudakubana Wrote: “I would like to come from tactical arche but i would be disccreet packaging which does not provide information on what is inside the box.
“COULD I SEE A Photo of What The External Packaging of Your Products Look Like?” Tactical Archery Told Him they Use Grey Bags to Package Their Items, to What He Response Twice: “Do the Crossbow Packaging Say 'Tactical Archery' on it or any other branding?” Harriet Wakeman, Counsel to the Inquiry, Questioned: “He was going to quite some lengths to determine the nature of the packaging on the crossbow that he may have seen to order?”
Mr Sutherland Response: “Yes, you could say that looking at it from Hindsight.” He maintained that Rudakubana's emails be not not even to raise suspects at the time.
The attacker then contacted merlin arch, the BBC reports. He queried: “If I bowht an 18 plus product how would you verify my age, do you verify id online or do the delivered person check my id at my door?
“Also, do I have to be 18 to get the product when it is my door?”
The company Replied with information regical its a verification process.
This comes after the taxi driver who drove rudakubana to the taylor swift dance class appeared video video link to the inquiry.
Gary Poland, 56, admitted he panicked and sped away beefore picking up another fare.
He said he though hey for four or fund loud bangs after dropping off rudakubana and assumed he was an active gunman. He called his “Best Mate” and talk another fare beefore eventually calling 999 Some 50 Minutes Later.
Mr Poland described the screaming coming from the dance studio as “the most awful sound” and the girl who fled as run “like a stampede for their lives”.
The public inquiry continues.